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... mock - heroic a vehicle for some of their most powerful writing , as though a heroic idiom had ceased to be possible except by proxy or through a filter of irony . In its primary or unironic form , it was no longer available to good ...
... mock - heroic a vehicle for some of their most powerful writing , as though a heroic idiom had ceased to be possible except by proxy or through a filter of irony . In its primary or unironic form , it was no longer available to good ...
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... heroic would be contaminated by reminders of its martial character is what distinguishes mock - heroic in this period from earlier treatments of epic material , direct or oblique . Swift's evocations of war are very fierce , but are ...
... heroic would be contaminated by reminders of its martial character is what distinguishes mock - heroic in this period from earlier treatments of epic material , direct or oblique . Swift's evocations of war are very fierce , but are ...
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... heroic tragedy ( a genre in which , incidentally , Oldham's satires are steeped ) . The heroic play was commonly ... mock - heroic towards a species of generic displacement or transposition , protective of epic even as it proceeds ...
... heroic tragedy ( a genre in which , incidentally , Oldham's satires are steeped ) . The heroic play was commonly ... mock - heroic towards a species of generic displacement or transposition , protective of epic even as it proceeds ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
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