The Meaning of the Orient in Keats's Consciousness
Journal Article
Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1992
Publication Work Type:
Literary Criticism
Magazine \ Newspaper:
Journal of King Saud University (Arts)
Issue Number:
1
Volume Number:
4
Pages:
3-23
Publication Abstract:
| This study discovers more than one Orient in Keats’s consciousness, a historical, fictional, and political one. The variety is a direct result of Keats’s exposure to different sources of knowledge about that world. The amalgamation of the three Oriental realms in Keats’s mind allows fictional elements to overshadow historical knowledge. A geographically fluid Orient in which Greece is included emerges in Keats’s poetry. This concept challenges the dominant view of ancient Greece as the source of Western civilization. |
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