Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

di Shahidha Bari (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants renewed attention. Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. The philosophical terms of analysis adopted here challenge the orthodoxies of Keats scholarship, traditionally characterised by the careful historicisation of a limited canon. The philosophical framework of analysis enhances the readings put forward, while Keats’s poems, in turn, serve to give fuller expression of those ideas themselves. Using Keats as a particular case, this book also demonstrates the ways in which theory and philosophy supplement literary scholarship.

• Autore: Shahidha Bari
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Romanticism
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 204 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9781138107304

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