Title: Mockepic Poetry From Pope To Heine
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.
Subjects: German poetry, Mock-heroic literature, History and criticism, English poetry, French poetry, English poetry, history and criticism, 18th century, French poetry, history and criticism, German poetry, history and criticism, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century