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Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satirical devices. It includes well-known texts (Pope's Dunciad, Byron's Don Juan, Heine's Atta Troll) and others which are little known (Ratschky's Melchior Striregel, Parny's La Guerre des Dieux). It owes a marked debt to Italian romance epic (especially Ariosto). The study places these texts in the literary context of the decline of serious epic, which helped mock epic to flourish, and of the 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' which questioned the authority of Homer's and Virgil's epics; and it relates their substance to contemporary debates about questions of religion and gender.
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Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satirical devices. It includes well-known texts (Pope's Dunciad, Byron's Don Juan, Heine's Atta Troll) and others which are little known (Ratschky's Melchior Striregel, Parny's La Guerre des Dieux). It owes a marked debt to Italian romance epic (especially Ariosto). The study places these texts in the literary context of the decline of serious epic, which helped mock epic to flourish, and of the 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' which questioned the authority of Homer's and Virgil's epics; and it relates their substance to contemporary debates about questions of religion and gender.
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Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

by Ritchie Robertson
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
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Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

by Ritchie Robertson

Overview

This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satirical devices. It includes well-known texts (Pope's Dunciad, Byron's Don Juan, Heine's Atta Troll) and others which are little known (Ratschky's Melchior Striregel, Parny's La Guerre des Dieux). It owes a marked debt to Italian romance epic (especially Ariosto). The study places these texts in the literary context of the decline of serious epic, which helped mock epic to flourish, and of the 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' which questioned the authority of Homer's and Virgil's epics; and it relates their substance to contemporary debates about questions of religion and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191610141
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 11/12/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Ritchie Robertson was born in Nairn, Scotland. He studied at Edinburgh University and Oxford University; held posts at Lincoln College, Oxford (1979-84) and Downing College, Cambridge (1984-89) before being appointed to his present post as Fellow and Tutor in German at St John's College, Oxford, in 1989. He is co-editor of the yearbook Austrian Studies (1990-99), and has been Germanic editor of the Modern Language Review since 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.

Table of Contents

AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Epic: a genre in stasis? 2. Elements of mock epic3. Pope's iDunciad/i and its Successors4. Voltaire's iLa Pucelle/i5. The Fairy Way of Writing: Wieland6. Mock Epic Domesticated: Goethe's iHerrmann und Dorothea/i7. Puritans into Revolutionaries: Butler's iHudibras/i and Ratschky's iMelchior Striegel/i8. Heroes in their Underclothes: Blumauer's travesty of the iAeneid/i9. Wars in Heaven: Parny's iLa Guerre des Dieux/i10. Byron's iDon Juan/i11. The Last Mock Epic? Heine's iAtta Troll/i12. EpilogueSelect Bibliography
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