Download or read book The Genres of Thomson s The Seasons written by Sandro Jung and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics since the eighteenth century have puzzled over the form of James Thomson’s composite long poem, The Seasons (1730, 1744, 1746), its generically hybrid make-up, and its relationship to established genres both Classical and modern. The textual condition of the work is complicated by the fact that it started as a stand-alone poem, Winter (1726), but was subsequently expanded—as part of a revision process that lasted almost two decades—through the addition of three further seasons poems. Transforming from primarily devotional poem to georgic account of the role of man’s laboring role in the creation, the meaning of The Seasons shifted with each addition of new material. Each revision introduced diverse subject matter while existing material was reorganized and occasionally moved from one season installment to another. The Genres of Thomson’s The Seasons is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to the study of the work’s formal heterogeneity, polyvocality, and polygeneric character. All contributions examine the different modes (descriptive, reflective, pastoral, hymnal, amatory, epic, georgic, dramatic), discourses (political, sentimental, scientific), and kinds that cooperate to make up the different installments and variants of The Seasons. They probe the multifarious interactions between different genres and modes and how a renewed focus on the form of Thomson’s long poem will result in an understanding of the processual character of The Seasons as a synthesizing simulacrum of various discourses and theories of composition. The volume’s essays map the generic anatomy of the poem in its different incarnations. They shed light on the poet’s conception of the descriptive long poem and his engaging with formal traditions that would have enabled contemporaneous readers to conceive of The Seasons as an assimilating and learned work to be read through both the works of the Classics and moderns. Contributions revisit models explaining the structural complexity of The Seasons, proposing others in their stead, and consider Thomson as the author of a long poem in relation to other poets both English and (in a transnational study) Swedish. The poem is furthermore contextualized in terms of sexuality and animal studies.
Download or read book The Seasons written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Seasons Autumn written by James Thomson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autumn" is a poem from a series of four poems under the title "The Seasons" by Scottish author James Thomson. He beautifully explained how everything is natural and cannot be explained by science. Thomson brilliantly personified nature and set the trend for the poetry of natural description.
Download or read book The Seasons written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The seasons written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomson and Pollok written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seasons written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomson s Seasons written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate and the Making of Worlds written by Tobias Menely and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies Warren-Brooks Award. In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world making. Menely’s central archive is English poetry written between John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” (1807)—a momentous century and a half during which Britain, emerging from a crisis intensified by the Little Ice Age, established the largest empire in world history and instigated the Industrial Revolution. Incorporating new sciences into ancient literary genres, these ambitious poems aspired to encompass what the eighteenth-century author James Thomson called the “system . . . entire.” Thus they offer a unique record of geohistory, Britain’s epochal transition from an agrarian society, buffeted by climate shocks, to a modern coal-powered nation. Climate and the Making of Worlds is a bracing and sophisticated contribution to ecocriticism, the energy humanities, and the prehistory of the Anthropocene.
Download or read book James Thomson s The Seasons Print Culture and Visual Interpretation 1730 1842 written by Sandro Jung and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes, and illustrations, it was recast by changing readerships, consumer fashions, and ideologies of culture. The book investigates the poem’s cultural afterlife by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. While the emphasis of the chapters is on printed visual culture in the form of book illustrations, the book also features discussions of paintings and other visual media such as furniture prints. Reading illustrations of iconographic moments from The Seasons as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities, the chapters contextualise the editions in light of their production and interpretive inscription. They introduce these editions’ publishers and designers who conceived visual translations of the text, as well as the engravers who rendered these designs in the form of the engraving plate from which the illustration could then be printed. Where relevant, the chapters introduce non-British illustrated editions to demonstrate in which ways foreign booksellers were conscious of British editions of The Seasons and negotiated their illustrative models in the sets of engraved plates they commissioned for their volumes.
Download or read book The seasons To which is prefixed the life of the author by P Murdoch and an essay on the plan and manner of the poem by J Aikin written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The seasons To which is prefixed the life of the author written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seasons By James Thomson To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Background of Thomson s seasons written by Alan Dugald MacKillop and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
