Mockepic Poetry From Pope To Heine
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.
German poetryMock-heroic literatureHistory and criticismEnglish poetryFrench poetryEnglish poetry, history and criticism, 18th centuryFrench poetry, history and criticismGerman poetry, history and criticismEnglish poetry, history and criticism, 19th century