Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

Ritchie Robertson
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Publisher Description

A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
November 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
466
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
8.1
MB

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