美后面可怕的真:济慈与殖民主义

The Shocking Truth Behind Beauty: Keats and Colonialism

国内从未关注过济慈诗歌与殖民主义的关系,也忽视其美后面可怕的真。运用后殖民主义和新历史主义理论,结合诗人的书信传记,可以挖掘文本的深层结构和隐喻系统。从19世纪这个决定性的阶段入手,审查大英帝国与古老帝国如阿兹特克、希腊、埃及、印度等关系,揭示济慈诗歌以某种方式参与了欧洲在海外的扩张,反映了西方对东方的支配、重构和权力控制。

In China,John Keats’ s poems have never attracted any concentrated analysis as to possible colonial connections,and their shocking truth behind beauty is ignored. On the basis of new-historicism and post-colonialism,the deep structures of the poems are to be excavated with the help of his biography and letters. Examing the relationships between the British Empire and the old empires,such as the Aztecs,Greece,Egypt,India,etc. in the decisive period of the 19 thcentury,we can reveal how Keats’ poetry somehow participated in Europe’s oversea expansion,reflecting the Western style for dominating,restructuring,and having authority over the Orient.