The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's the Seasons and the Language of Criticism

ISBN-13: 9781032169354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 584 str.

Ralph Cohen

Opis

First published in 1964, The Art of Discrimination is a study in the relation between critical theory and practice, taking as its test-case James Thomson’s The Seasons, the poem which was, according to Johnson, of "a new kind".

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Criticism and Process: The Problem of Thomson’s Revisions 2. Hypotheses and their Transformation: Critical Traditional and the Pressure of the Poem 3. Things, Images and Imagination: The Reconsideration of Description 4. The Scope of Critical Analogy: ‘Ut Pictura Poesis’ 5. Literary Criticism and Illustrations of ‘The Seasons’ 6. Diction, Style and Language: The Dilemma of Critical Agreement 7. The Appeals to the Past: Critics and Audiences 8. Conclusion: Criticism and Discrimination Appendix I: A Check List of Editions of ‘The Seasons’ Appendix II: The Identification of a Critic Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Ralph Cohen