憂鬱的陰霾籠罩著濟慈須臾及波折的⼀⽣，他的《憂鬱頌》亦使他留名憂鬱的歷史中。濟慈既曾為名醫科⽣，亦讀書不倦，深諳憂鬱醫學及⽂學兩⼤傳統。他捧讀Robert Burton的《解剖憂鬱》之餘，又鍾愛莎⼠比亞的《王⼦復仇記》。現有的浪漫主義研究多著重探究憂鬱於社會及時代的意義，⽽濟慈與憂鬱的關係卻仍待仔細討論，以闡述憂鬱於他的詩歌及詩學中重要角⾊。本⽂透過憂鬱⽂學及醫學的傳統，指出濟慈對憂鬱的理解並非只受社會及歷史的影響，亦非詩⼈脫離時代的空想。濟慈認為憂鬱所迸發出的創造⼒，源⾃詩⼈意識到他與世間苦難密不可。濟慈於憂鬱中表現的意識將他從⼗八世紀感傷的「墓園詩⼈」中區分出來，⽽其中悲天憫⼈的情懷，彌補詩歌超脫避世之不⾜。濟慈之憂鬱詩學顯⽰詩歌與世界緊密相連，同時帶出浪漫主義並非純為⼀⾼舉主觀感受及想像的思潮。 / While the short and eventful life of John Keats ascribes a melancholic trait to this young poet, Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” guarantees him a position in the genealogy of melancholy. As a medical student and a voracious reader, Keats is well versed in the medical and literary traditions of melancholy. Keats is both an arduous reader of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and an ardent admirer of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Despite the existing social and historical study of Romantic melancholy, Keats’s affinity with melancholy is however still in need of a full-length discussion to expound on the centrality of melancholy in his poetry and poetics. Drawing upon the literary and medical traditions of melancholy, this study argues that Keatsian melancholy is neither a natural consequence of the social history nor pure conjecture of the poet’s mind detached from his times. The creative impulse of Keatsian melancholy fundamentally originates from the poet’s consciousness of the inevitable and necessary interaction with the world of troubles. The consciousness of Keatsian melancholy not only demarcates itself from the sentimentalism of Graveyard poetry, but also rectifies the poetic egotism through the poet’s sympathy for the suffering world. The attention to the interrelationship between the poet’s mind and the world also revisits the misrepresentation of Romanticism as a movement centring merely upon subjectivity and imagination. / Lo, Ka Tat. / Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2016. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves ). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on …). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_1292298 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Contributors | Lo, Ka Tat (author.), (thesis advisor.), Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of English. (degree granting institution.) |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography, text |
| Format | electronic resource, remote, 1 online resource ( leaves) : illustrations, computer, online resource |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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