James Thomson's Defence of Poetry: Intertextual Allusion in The SeasonsNiemeyer, 2003 - 278 стор. 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. |
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... scientific imagination and try to incorporate scientific imagination into a fabric of poetic allusion and traditional personifications of wisdom . 99 This tradition starts very early with John Aikin's An Essay on the Application of ...
... scientific investigation and scientific method . This experimental mode of poetic enquiry , this scientification , ' is signalled and further brought to the reader's attention by the fact that a large number of the non - literary pre ...
... scientific theory and who uses the new scientific material to inaugurate a new era of poetic power : The scientific material is transposed into a piece of ostentatiously sublime poetry and enacts the benefits poetry can draw from ...
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Natural Philosophy and Poetry | 31 |
Habituation and the Practice of Virtue | 65 |
The Poems Heterocosm | 81 |
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