LEADER 04610nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910810152503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-11-091368-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110913682 035 $a(CKB)2670000000250695 035 $a(EBL)3041674 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000559901 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376037 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559901 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568993 035 $a(PQKB)10719516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3041674 035 $a(DE-B1597)46469 035 $a(OCoLC)979883605 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110913682 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3041674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597310 035 $a(OCoLC)922944402 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000250695 100 $a20030711d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJames Thomson's defence of poetry $eintertextual allusion in The Seasons /$fStefanie Lethbridge 205 $aReprint 2011 210 $aTbingen $cMax Niemeyer$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aStudien zur englischen Philologie,$x0081-7244 ;$vn.F., Bd. 38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-484-45038-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-270) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tList of Abbreviations --$tPart I: Introduction --$t1. Intertextual Strategies and The Seasons --$tPart II: Intellectual Contexts --$t2. Natural Philosophy and Poetry --$t3. Habituation and the Practice of Virtue --$tPart III: Reading the Intertext --$t4. The Poem's Heterocosm --$t5. Defending Poetic Discourse: Science into Poetry --$t6. Demonstrating Poetic Power --$t7. Conclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 410 0$aStudien zur englischen Philologie. Neue Folge 606 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAesthetics, British$y18th century 606 $aIntertextuality 606 $aAllusions 615 0$aPoetry$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAesthetics, British 615 0$aIntertextuality. 615 0$aAllusions. 676 $a821.56 686 $aHK 3215$2rvk 700 $aLethbridge$b Stefanie$01123315 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810152503321 996 $aJames Thomson's defence of poetry$93936744 997 $aUNINA