10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOCK-HEROIC»
Discover the use of
mock-heroic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mock-heroic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mock-
heroic from Butler to Cowper: an English genre and ...
If the association of mock-heroic with satire is commonplace nowadays, there is a
good deal less consensus on what it is that such poems actually satirize. The
Oxford Companion, proposes that the mock-heroic poem 'parodies the ...
2
Studien Zum Komischen Epos
The theme of the aged king abdicating and choosing a new ruler has no real
model in the classical epic,72 and the characters of Shadwell and Flecknoe are
not so much mock-heroic parodies of classical epic heroes as distorted
reflections of ...
3
Patriotism, a
Mock-
heroic. In Six Cantos
MOCK-HEROIC. IN SIX CANTOS. THE SECOND EDITION. Sebold tby Gods, O
Jfratl! i KINGS. Contra vitia off ere, contra, pericula animose, contra fortunam
Jitferbe, contra ambitionem contumelies?. LUCILIUS. LONDON: Printed for J. W
UK IB ...
4
Riot. A
Mock Heroic Poem: In Three Cantos. By Christopher ...
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5
The Maid of Renmore: Or, Platonic Love; a
Mock Heroic ...
TO. AMANDA. --.-— Postcrz'pt Introductory t0 the Notes. Consmmtmo that many
parts of the foregoing verses will require illustrations from sources of reading not
generally familiar to the fair sex, I have thought myself under an obligation to offer
...
6
Les champignons du diable; or, Imperial mushrooms, a ...
George Huddesford. 18 D <- LES CHAMPIGNONS DU DIABLE; OH, 3mpecial
mushrooms: A MOCK-HEROIC POEM,
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Re-siting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in ...
VICTOR. CHANG. •-p HE MOCK-HEROIC FORM has become identified with the
English and European writers of the eighteenth century despite its more ancient
lineage. The attempt to re-create in eighteenth-century England the classical ...
Gillian Whitlock, Helen Tiffin, 1992
8
Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
Mock-heroic cues familiar stylistic expectations but then inverts them with undue
focus on subjects that would typically have fallen beneath heroic radar:2 the “
particolour'd troops” ofthe ombre deck (The Rape ofthe Lock, 3.43) and the “chill'
d ...
9
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
MOCK-HEROIC is a more general term for an exaggerated IMITATION of
HEROIC tone. Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock (1714) is a classic mock epic,
in which the theft of a lock of hair is described in terms similar to Helen of Troy's
capture ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Epic
Mock-heroic. and. English. poetry. Sometime during the Restoration, the status of
epic as the highest poetic genre went into a decline from which it has never
recovered. As T.S. Eliot said, 'since Milton, we have had no great epic poem'.1
Great ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOCK-HEROIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mock-heroic is used in the context of the following news items.
Go Set a Watchman should never have been hyped as a 'landmark …
to the elaborately facetious mock-heroic: With the same suddenness that [sic] a barbarous boy yanks the larva of an ant lion from its hole to ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
Museum & Gallery Listings for July 17-23
“Gulf War” (1991) is a diptych pairing mock-heroic portraits of former President George H. W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. The men loom ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Riddled with clichés, routinely inept: Harper Lee's Go Set a …
to the elaborately facetious mock-heroic: With the same suddenness that [sic] a barbarous boy yanks the larva of an ant lion from its hole to ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
Museum & Gallery Listings for July 10-16
“Gulf War” (1991) is a diptych pairing mock-heroic portraits of former President George H. W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. The men loom ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Review: Roger Brown, 'Political Paintings' and 'Virtual Still Life'
“Gulf War” (1991) is a diptych pairing mock-heroic portraits of former President George H. W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. The men loom ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
'Felt': A Fascinating Indie Feminist Riff on Superhero Tropes
... conclusion of the picture's very disturbing climax, the images of her donning that mask and taking a mock-heroic pose aren't easily shaken. «Flavorwire, Jun 15»
The Humble Pig
I'm more drawn to the mock-heroic and comical, and pig drives fit the bill. For all the popularity of pork's flavor, human cultures have traditionally ... «Pacific Standard, Jun 15»
The Return of the Great White Boss, Bruce Springsteen
... once finding a motherlode of inspiration in homegrown garage mayhem, shlocky monster-mash dramaturgy, and mock-heroic teen anthems, ... «PopMatters, Jun 15»
You'll be cheering for rotten 'Scoundrels'
As a bonus, his ringing tenor sells the mock-heroic pomp of "Love Is My Legs," the wickedly tasteless high point of Act Two. Joining him in that ... «Springfield News-Leader, Jun 15»
We read James Joyce's Ulysses so you don't have to
So it's: dialogue, thoughts, dialogue, switch into mock-heroic stylings of ancient Irish myth, dialogue, thoughts, switch into sensationalist sports ... «GQ.com, Jun 15»
