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Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Robertson Ritchie
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199571581
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
845 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
466

Forfatter
Robertson Ritchie

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Robertson Ritchie
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Robertson Ritchie
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
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Wonderful: lucid, intelligent, and wide-ranging... Mock-Epic Poetry: from Pope to Heine is unlike most academic studies, and that is a good thing. Because Robertson's frame of reference is so broad, he patiently builds up a portrait of each text, offering bibliographical and critical contexts before proceeding to analysis. This adds to the book's bulk, but makes it a pleasure to read - and it means that it will be accessible to students of English and Classics as well as Modern Languages. It has two outstanding qualities. First, it makes an eloquent case for the interconnectedness of European literatures in the later eighteenth century. Second, it reminds readers of the pleasures of intertextuality.

Henry Power, Times Literary Supplement

Robertson's command of his vast range of primary sources is astonishing, as is the extent of his scholarly work on the associated questions he explores.

Forum for Modern Language Studies

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.
Les mer
A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.
Les mer
Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Epic: a genre in stasis? ; 2. Elements of mock epic ; 3. Pope's Dunciad and its Successors ; 4. Voltaire's La Pucelle ; 5. The Fairy Way of Writing: Wieland ; 6. Mock Epic Domesticated: Goethe's Herrmann und Dorothea ; 7. Puritans into Revolutionaries: Butler's Hudibras and Ratschky's Melchior Striegel ; 8. Heroes in their Underclothes: Blumauer's travesty of the Aeneid ; 9. Wars in Heaven: Parny's La Guerre des Dieux ; 10. Byron's Don Juan ; 11. The Last Mock Epic? Heine's Atta Troll ; 12. Epilogue ; Select Bibliography
Les mer
Wonderful: lucid, intelligent, and wide-ranging... Mock-Epic Poetry: from Pope to Heine is unlike most academic studies, and that is a good thing. Because Robertson's frame of reference is so broad, he patiently builds up a portrait of each text, offering bibliographical and critical contexts before proceeding to analysis. This adds to the book's bulk, but makes it a pleasure to read - and it means that it will be accessible to students of English and Classics as well as Modern Languages. It has two outstanding qualities. First, it makes an eloquent case for the interconnectedness of European literatures in the later eighteenth century. Second, it reminds readers of the pleasures of intertextuality.
Les mer
A widely ranging comparative study of English, French, German, and some Italian mock-epic poetry, all with translations provided The decline of epic and the emergence of the 'mock' epic are discussed within a broad generic context, including mock-heroic, romance epic, parody, and travesty Offers an important and lucid contribution to our understanding of the history of ideas
Les mer
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.
Les mer
A widely ranging comparative study of English, French, German, and some Italian mock-epic poetry, all with translations provided The decline of epic and the emergence of the 'mock' epic are discussed within a broad generic context, including mock-heroic, romance epic, parody, and travesty Offers an important and lucid contribution to our understanding of the history of ideas
Les mer

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Wonderful: lucid, intelligent, and wide-ranging... Mock-Epic Poetry: from Pope to Heine is unlike most academic studies, and that is a good thing. Because Robertson's frame of reference is so broad, he patiently builds up a portrait of each text, offering bibliographical and critical contexts before proceeding to analysis. This adds to the book's bulk, but makes it a pleasure to read - and it means that it will be accessible to students of English and Classics as well as Modern Languages. It has two outstanding qualities. First, it makes an eloquent case for the interconnectedness of European literatures in the later eighteenth century. Second, it reminds readers of the pleasures of intertextuality.

Henry Power, Times Literary Supplement

Robertson's command of his vast range of primary sources is astonishing, as is the extent of his scholarly work on the associated questions he explores.

Forum for Modern Language Studies

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.
Les mer
A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.
Les mer
Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Epic: a genre in stasis? ; 2. Elements of mock epic ; 3. Pope's Dunciad and its Successors ; 4. Voltaire's La Pucelle ; 5. The Fairy Way of Writing: Wieland ; 6. Mock Epic Domesticated: Goethe's Herrmann und Dorothea ; 7. Puritans into Revolutionaries: Butler's Hudibras and Ratschky's Melchior Striegel ; 8. Heroes in their Underclothes: Blumauer's travesty of the Aeneid ; 9. Wars in Heaven: Parny's La Guerre des Dieux ; 10. Byron's Don Juan ; 11. The Last Mock Epic? Heine's Atta Troll ; 12. Epilogue ; Select Bibliography
Les mer
Wonderful: lucid, intelligent, and wide-ranging... Mock-Epic Poetry: from Pope to Heine is unlike most academic studies, and that is a good thing. Because Robertson's frame of reference is so broad, he patiently builds up a portrait of each text, offering bibliographical and critical contexts before proceeding to analysis. This adds to the book's bulk, but makes it a pleasure to read - and it means that it will be accessible to students of English and Classics as well as Modern Languages. It has two outstanding qualities. First, it makes an eloquent case for the interconnectedness of European literatures in the later eighteenth century. Second, it reminds readers of the pleasures of intertextuality.
Les mer
A widely ranging comparative study of English, French, German, and some Italian mock-epic poetry, all with translations provided The decline of epic and the emergence of the 'mock' epic are discussed within a broad generic context, including mock-heroic, romance epic, parody, and travesty Offers an important and lucid contribution to our understanding of the history of ideas
Les mer
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.
Les mer
A widely ranging comparative study of English, French, German, and some Italian mock-epic poetry, all with translations provided The decline of epic and the emergence of the 'mock' epic are discussed within a broad generic context, including mock-heroic, romance epic, parody, and travesty Offers an important and lucid contribution to our understanding of the history of ideas
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199571581
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
845 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
466

Forfatter
Robertson Ritchie

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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