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BL
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1008612
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b762982
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| Main Entry
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Robertson, Ritchie.
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| Title & Author
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Mock-epic poetry from Pope to Heine /\ Ritchie Robertson.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (456 pages)
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| ISBN
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0191572330
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: 0191722359
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: 9780191572333
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: 9780191722356
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0199571589
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9780199571581
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-441) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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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English poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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French poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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French poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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German poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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German poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Mock-heroic literature-- History and criticism.
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English poetry.
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French poetry.
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German poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Mock-heroic literature.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.1/70905
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| LC Classification
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PN1435.R63 2009eb
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