TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Mock-epic poetry from Pope to Heine
A1  - Robertson, Ritchie
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2184527
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0199571589 hardback
SN  - 9780199571581 hardback
KW  - 1700-luku
KW  - 1800-luku
KW  - English poetry : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - English poetry : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - French poetry : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - French poetry : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - German poetry : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - German poetry : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Mock-heroic literature : History and criticism.
KW  - saksankielinen kaunokirjallisuus
KW  - englanninkielinen kirjallisuus
KW  - kirjahistoria
KW  - pilkkarunot
KW  - ranskankielinen kirjallisuus
ER  -