Tradition and Emancipation in Horace and Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Ancient History
Author_Megumi Ohsumi
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Comparative Literature
Deconstruction
Early Modern Europe
Eighteenth Century Studies
Elegy
English Literature
Epic
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Ethics
Georgian England
Historicism
Horace
Poetry
Roman Empire
Roman History
Satire
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- ISBN 9781680532302
- Weight: 515g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2020
- Publisher: Academica Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Tradition and Emancipation, Japanese scholar Megumi Ohsumi explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope’s poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope’s Horatian Imitations, Ohsumi attempts to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in Pope’s oeuvre. Horace has remained one of the central Roman figures in classical tradition, and Renaissance humanism propelled Western European writers to explore his life and career and weave them into their own creative accounts. Poets could easily identify with Horace, and they turned to him for channels through which to intimate ideological strife and vicissitudes of life, often as dislocated individuals in their native lands. While retaining interauthorial quality in his textual output, Pope metamorphoses into his own independent self as artist and poet as he evinces a renewed hope for his contemporary England. Ohsumi attempts to maintain a phenomenological outlook in delving deeper than surface appearance, so as to avoid reductionism in the endeavor to penetrate Pope’s intentions and perceptions.
Megumi Ohsumi, Assistant Professor, Center for International Affairs, Osaka University
