James Thomson's Defence of Poetry: Intertextual Allusion in The SeasonsThis 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. An intertextual reading reveals »The Seasons«, though heterogeneous on its surface, as coherent in its cultural functionality. An analysis of the poem's intertext uncovers textual strategies that attempt to re-legitimise poetic discourse as a culturally relevant force especially in relation to the newly privileged discourse of natural philosophy. |
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Contents
Natural Philosophy and Poetry | 31 |
Habituation and the Practice of Virtue | 65 |
The Poems Heterocosm | 81 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | James Thomson's Defence of Poetry: Intertextual Allusion in The Seasons Volume 38 of Studien zur englischen Philologie, ISSN 0081-7244 |
| Author | Stefanie Lethbridge |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Niemeyer, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 348445038X, 9783484450387 |
| Length | 278 pages |
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