Author : Ulrich Broich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521309654
Studien Zum Komischen Epos by Ulrich Broich Pdf
This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody, satire and occasional poetry. The second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry.