Keats and philosophy

Bari, Shahidha K.

Keats and philosophy the life of sensations / [electronic resource] : Shahidha K. Bari. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - xx, 184 p. - Routledge studies in Romanticism ; 15 . - Routledge studies in romanticism ; 15. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index.

1. Feeling -- 2. Breathing, beating, being -- 3. Becoming -- 4. Wondering -- 5. Surviving.

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--




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Keats, John, 1795-1821 --Philosophy.
Keats, John, 1795-1821 --Criticism and interpretation.


Senses and sensation in literature.
Phenomenology in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Romanticism--England.


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