Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-441) and index.
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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: A Future for Mock Epic? Spitteler, Kafka, Joyce.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 relations, and on a range of satirical devices.
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Mock-epic poetry from Pope to Heine.
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9780199571581
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
French poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
French poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
German poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
German poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.