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...
This study presents a contextual and intertextual reading of James Thomson's (1700--1748) poem The Seasons, taking into consideration some of the p...
This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and higher-class framework - the studies include explorations of female versions of the heroic, and they consider working-class and ethnic perspectives. The chapters in this volume each focus on a prominent conjuncture of texts, histories and approaches to the heroic. Taken together, they present an overview of the literary heroic in...
This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of...
