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| Two Gates Into Jane Hirshfield’s Poetry | ||
| 作者 | Byrne, Deirdre C. (著) ; Mason, Garth (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.21 n.1-2 |
| 出版日期 | 2020 |
| 頁次 | 328 - 350 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Deirdre C. Byrne (ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-6632) is a professor of English studies at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa. She is the co-editor of Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. Her research focuses on gender and literature, specifically gender and women’s poetry and gender and speculative fiction. Garth Mason Garth Mason (ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5713-3424) is a senior lecturer in religious studies at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa. His research focus is Mahāyāna Buddhism and literary studies. His research into autobiography and poetry utilises Nāgārjuna’s understanding of pratītyasamutpāda as a hermeneutical tool. |
| 摘要 | Despite Jane Hirshfield’s having published 11 books of poetry and having received six awards for poetry, there is a dearth of published criticism on her work. Most of the existing literature consists of online tributes and interviews with the poet, with barely any scholarly consideration. In light of this academic lacuna, we offer a two-fold framework for reading and exploring her poetry. Our foci are the expression of Zen Buddhism and feminist concerns in her poetry. These two themes, although apparently divergent, intersect in Hirshfield’s representation of desire. Desire plays a central role in Zen Buddhism, which theorises it as a central, but problematic, feature of human existence. Desire traps the desiring subject in sensory reality, which is, by its nature, always already contingent. Feminist thinking also foregrounds desire, insisting on women as desiring subjects, and on the complexity of the desiring relation, imbued with overtones of power and domination. Our article explores the representation of desire and relations of desire in a selection of Hirshfield’s poems, demonstrating the centrality and relevance of our twin foci. We offer these here as preliminary tools for reading Hirshfield’s poetry, in the hope of stimulating further research into her work. |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2021.1977013 |
| 點閱次數 | 2 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.12.09 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.12.09 |
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