Code
01N04111
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 October 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
Keywords
Gérard Genette
James Thomson
reception
paratextuality
print culture
The Seasons
hypotextuality
18th Century
English literature
Literary studies
Project description
The proposed project aims to provide a large-scale interdisciplinary study of James Thomson's The Seasons and the different textualities the poem engenders. It combines print culture research and reception studies with a rigorous application of the Genettian theories of paratextuality and hypotextuality and will produce a sophisticated matrix of Thomson's transposition and transformation of earlier texts.