Author: James ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Seasons
Author: James ThomsonA Poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton
Author: James ThomsonThomson's Seasons
Author: James ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seasons
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
James Thomson's Defence of Poetry
Author: Stefanie LethbridgePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110913682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This study presents a contextual and intertextual reading of James Thomson's (1700--1748) poem »The Seasons«, taking into consideration some of the presuppositions and habitus of the text's cultural community and the function of the poem's many intertextual allusions. Contemporary assumptions about processes of perception, reading and the practice of virtue call for an approach to the poem that takes literary pre-texts into account. An intertextual reading reveals »The Seasons«, though heterogeneous on its surface, as coherent in its cultural functionality: It aims to train readers into virtuous habits and asserts the powers of poetic discourse as a culturally relevant force especially in relation to the discourse of natural philosophy. With the emergence of natural philosophy as a cultural activity of considerable market value, poetry had to legitimise itself as a culturally relevant pursuit. An analysis of the poem's intertext, in particular allusions to Virgil, Ovid and Milton, but also to genre conventions such as pastoral, romance, sermon and panegyric, uncovers textual strategies that attempt to re-legitimise poetry on the one hand by transposing scientific method into a poetic environment. On the other hand, the text demonstrates, using its intertext, that poetry has powers which reach beyond the rational and empirical agenda of natural philosophy and that poetry has a distinctive cultural function as a provider of vision, insight and moral knowledge. Diese Studie legt eine historisch kontextualisierte Interpretation von James Thomson's (1700--1748) Gedicht »The Seasons« vor, die Präsuppositionen und Habitus zeitgenössischer Leserschaft sowie dieFunktion seiner zahlreichen intertextuellen Anspielungen mit einbezieht. Diese Lesart erhellt »The Seasons« als einen, trotz heterogener Textoberfläche, in seiner kulturellen Funktionalität kohärenten Text. Die Analyse des Intertexts deckt Textstrategien auf, die den dichterischen Diskurs insbesondere in Relation zum neu privilegierten Diskurs der Naturphilosophie als kulturell relevante Kraft relegitimieren.
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
Author: David FairerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317892887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
From Madman to Crime Fighter
Author: Roslynn D. HaynesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
From Madman to Crime Fighter is the most comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film.
The Poetical Works of James Thomson
Author: James ThomsonTheology and the Enlightenment
Author: Paul AvisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567705668
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this standard interpretation as based on a narrow view of Enlightenment sources. Building on the work of revisionist historians, this volume takes the argument squarely into the theological domain, whether Anglican, Dissenting, Lutheran or deistic, whilst also noting that the Enlightenment deeply affected Roman Catholic and Jewish theologies. It challenges the stereotype of 'Enlightenment rationalism', and the penultimate chapter brings out the biblical and ecclesial roots of the image of enlightenment and reclaims it for Christian faith.
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Author: Palaestra
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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Untersuchungen und Texte aus der deutschen, englischen und skandinavischen Philologie und Literaturgeschichte" (varies).