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Author:

Robertson, Ritchie.

Title:

Mock-epic poetry from Pope to Heine / Ritchie Robertson.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

456 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Mock-heroic literature--History and criticism.
English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
French poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
German poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
French poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
German poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [426]-441) and index.

Contents:

Epic: a genre in stasis? -- Elements of mock epic -- Pope's Dunciad and its successors -- Voltaire's La Pucelle -- The fairy way of writing: Wieland -- Mock epic domesticated: Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea -- Puritans into revolutionaries: Butler's Hudibras and Ratschky's Melchior Striegel -- Heroes in their underclothes: Blumauer's Travesty of the Aeneid -- Wars in heaven: Parny's La Guerre des dieux -- Byron's Don Juan -- The last mock epic? Heine's Atta Troll -- Epilogue: A future for mock epic? Spitteler, Kafka, Joyce.

ISBN:

0199571589 (hbk.)
9780199571581 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)430497052

LCCN:

2009938430

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)