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MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY

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MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY

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Epic poetry has long served as a privileged forum for negotiating the interdependence of literary form and political power. Concentrating on Thomas Hobbes’s mid-seventeenth-century contributions, his epistolary dialogue with Sir William Davenant surrounding Gondibert and the theoretical manifesto prefacing his English translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the present study reconstructs the philosophical scaffolding that informs Hobbes’s poetics of the epic. Hobbes reconfigures the genre as a civic instrument whose fundamental aim is the fostering of virtue through pleasurable imitation. He articulates seven interlocking features: lexical transparency, syntactic perspicuity, architectural contrivance, disciplined fancy, ethical impartiality, meticulous description, and ample variety. Each functions as a component within an integrated didactic system designed to align the passions of heterogeneous readerships with the rational principles requisite for commonwealth stability. By situating Hobbes’s aesthetic theory within its broader intellectual and political contexts, this study indicates that the epic, under his guidance, becomes a calibrated vehicle for shaping collective behaviour, thereby illuminating the genre’s enduring capacity to accommodate shifting ideological climates without relinquishing its ethical function.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

28 Eylül 2025

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Eylül 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

19 Haziran 2025

Kabul Tarihi

21 Eylül 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

APA
Alhas, H. (2025). MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 8(3), 1486-1497. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1723339
AMA
1.Alhas H. MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY. UDEKAD. 2025;8(3):1486-1497. doi:10.37999/udekad.1723339
Chicago
Alhas, Hüseyin. 2025. “MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 (3): 1486-97. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1723339.
EndNote
Alhas H (01 Eylül 2025) MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 3 1486–1497.
IEEE
[1]H. Alhas, “MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY”, UDEKAD, c. 8, sy 3, ss. 1486–1497, Eyl. 2025, doi: 10.37999/udekad.1723339.
ISNAD
Alhas, Hüseyin. “MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 8/3 (01 Eylül 2025): 1486-1497. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1723339.
JAMA
1.Alhas H. MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY. UDEKAD. 2025;8:1486–1497.
MLA
Alhas, Hüseyin. “MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, c. 8, sy 3, Eylül 2025, ss. 1486-97, doi:10.37999/udekad.1723339.
Vancouver
1.Hüseyin Alhas. MIRROR FOR CIVIC ETHICS: THOMAS HOBBES ON EPIC POETRY. UDEKAD. 01 Eylül 2025;8(3):1486-97. doi:10.37999/udekad.1723339

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