Mockepic Poetry From Pope To Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780199571581
Description: 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.