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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.Ulrich Broich is the author of 'The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem (European Studies in English Literature)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521309653 and ISBN 0521309654.
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