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100 1 $aRowland, Jon Thomas,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94041653
245 10 $aFaint praise and civil leer :$bthe "decline" of eighteenth-century panegyric /$cJon Thomas Rowland.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delaware Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $a190 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 170-185) and index.
505 0 $a1. "Panegyrike Congratulatorie" -- 2. Andrew Marvell's Political Poetry and the Panegyric Tradition -- 3. "Competing Versions:" The "Painter-Poems" and Annus Mirabilis -- 4. The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Panegyrical Paratext (1) -- 5. From Cheated Sight to False Light: Analogy from Swift's "Odes" to A Tale of a Tub -- 6. The Preface as Vehicle in A Tale of a Tub: The Panegyrical Paratext (2) -- 7. Swift and Churchill: Postmodern Panegyrics.
520 $aRowland examines Marvell's political poetry and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, showing how panegyrical writing developed into mock-panegyric and satire, increasingly as much in response to versions of events as to the events themselves. The author then describes how Marvell exploits panegyrical strategies to subvert its conventional deliberative function, as his equal virtuosity at praise and blame actually undermines his ethos and separates his advice from any clear authority capable of implementing it.
520 8 $aMoreover, in Marvell the addressee of conventional panegyric, while remaining ostensibly Charles II, is internalized in a series of grotesques resembling, in various ways, the megalomaniacal "Bayes" (Samuel Parker, Bishop of Oxford). Marvell uses variations on the abuse of the conventional panegyrical arrangement of people, poet, and prince as a metaphor for the abuse of the proper relationship between all signifieds and their signifiers.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aWriting a generation later, Swift borrows many of the themes and motifs of The Rehearsal Transpros'd for his satire in A Tale of a Tub, in particular the association of the preface with panegyric, as a metaphor of the reversal that occurs between praiser and praised, vehicle and tenor, when proper relationships are abused.
520 8 $aRowland also explores how Swift moves from the unsatisfactory use of analogy in his panegyrical "Odes," to more satisfactory use of it in the Tale and then concentrates on the prefaces of the Tale as "Panegyrical paratext."
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102755
650 0 $aPraise in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008418
650 0 $aLaudatory poetry, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSatire, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111191
650 0 $aRhetoric$vEarly works to 1800.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110802
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR448.P68$iR68 1994