Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations Contributor(s): Bari, Shahidha Kazi (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138107301 ISBN-13: 9781138107304 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.7 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.62 lbs) 204 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |