10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEROICOMIC»
Discover the use of
heroicomic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
heroicomic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mobiad Or Battle of the Voice: A
Heroicomic Poem, ...
Being A Briefly Historical, Natural And Lively, Free And Humorous, Description Of An Exeter Election. In Six Cantos.
2
Sentimental Opera: Questions of Genre in the Age of ...
is the likely reason for his description of this libretto as heroicomic. On the other
hand, the presence of a strong sentimental ingredient within a predominantly
comic context (a review of the first production lamented the excessive number of
...
Stefano Castelvecchi,
2013
3
Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807
9-1 1 and 13-18 of CaM, consisted of about eighty-five works: about fifty-four
serious or heroicomic, about thirty-one comic. (The totals are approximate
because some of the works I have counted as secular cantatas and drammi sacri
could ...
4
Stories, Theories and Things
More importantly, the pleasure of heroicomic pastiche depends largely on the
consciousness of distance between heroic style and trivial subject, whereas the
problem of these novels is precisely that this double consciousness becomes ...
Christine Brooke-Rose,
1991
5
Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds
For Tassoni, the future of the epic lies in a new, satirical genre, the heroicomic
poem, which he has created and which allows for an entertaining critique of
Italian regionalism and modern geopolitical and cultural realities. The
juxtaposition of ...
Anthony J. Cascardi, Leah Middlebrook,
2012
6
Reader's Digest Oxford complete wordfinder
heroicomic. heteroclite. grand; high-flown; dramatic, b (of a work of art) heroic in
scale or subject; unusually large or impressive. 3 of the heroes of Greek antiquity;
(of poetry) dealing with the ancient heroes. • n. (in pi.) 1 a high-flown language ...
Reader's Digest Association,
1996
7
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
... of Virgil, contains some of the most artful strokes of satire, and the most
poignant ridicule imaginable. The introduction of frequent parodies on serious
and solemn passages of Homer and Virgil, gives much life and spirit to
heroicomic poetry.
Alexander Pope, William Roscoe,
1824
8
The Playful Spirit: Italian Humor
In the meantime the heroicomic epic continued with Boiardo, Berni and finally
with the greatest artist of them all during the first half of the century, the poet
Ariosto of the court of Ferrara. This city then rivaled Florence as an incubator of
the arts.
Rudolph Altrocchi, Edited by Paul and John Altrocchi,
2012
9
Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum in Salem, ...
The Lousiad, an Heroicomic Poem, 8vo, Philadelphia, 1786. Womo'r'r, Hon.
Oliver, LL.D., ofLitchficld, Conn“, Sec. U. S. Treasu, Gov. of Conn., gr. Yale, 1778,
41.1835, at. 73. Address to the People of the United States, on the Report
presented ...
Athenæum (SALEM, Massachusetts),
1842
10
The Gentleman's Magazine
AN humble imitation os better heroicomic poems, making "the increasing 'f rage
for dramatic amusemenrs, and " the unbridled iusolence with which " the lowest
rtsormers of the theatre U have treated that publick' which lupU port: them," the ...