| dc.contributor | 英文系 | zh_TW |
| dc.creator (作者) | 楊麗敏 | zh_TW |
| dc.creator (作者) | Yang, Carol L. | en_US |
| dc.date (日期) | 2018-09 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 19-Dec-2018 16:27:37 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 19-Dec-2018 16:27:37 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 19-Dec-2018 16:27:37 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/121446 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | John Keats (1795-1821) reveals a sustained interest in dreams and quest motifs throughout his career, which bespeaks his concerns with the nature of human agency in a narrative of atonement and self-redemption. The "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819) remains a great but cryptic poem, concerned with a Keatsian preoccupation with human existence, as well as with the issues of "being-in-the-world" and "being-not-at-home" in the form of poetic trance and visionary flight.1 This poem also calls into question such renowned Keatsian concepts as "Adam`s dream," "Pleasure Thermometer," and "Negative Capability."2 On 30 September 1820 Keats wrote to Charles Brown: "Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering" (Letters 2: 346).3 Uttered at the end of Keats`s life, this echoes the questions Keats`s speaker asks earlier in the "Ode to a Nightingale": "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? / Fled is that music:-Do I wake or sleep?" (79-80).4 Keats here emphasizes a pervasive sense of impermanence, suffering, and illusion as well as shifts from conventional Christian `sin` to Buddhist `suffering` as the epistemic framework for living. In no sense was Keats a doctrinaire Buddhist, but I would like to suggest that certain Buddhist concepts may shed light on some concepts in Keats`s writing.5 Keats`s "Ode to a Nightingale" embodies such Buddhist principles as the dharma and the Four Noble Truths, articulated through Buddhism`s focus on suffering and its possible antidote. | en_US |
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| dc.relation (關聯) | JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol.48, No.2, pp.137-163 | - |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Language; Poetics; Essays; Poetry; Writing; Consciousness; 19th century; Buddhism; Letters; Keats; John (1795-1821) | en_US |
| dc.title (題名) | A Passage from Adam’s Dream to the Cessation of Desire: A Buddhist Reading of John Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ | en_US |
| dc.type (資料類型) | article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi (DOI) | 10.1353/jnt.2018.0006 | - |
| dc.doi.uri (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2018.0006 | - |
