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| The Psychology of Victorian Buddhism and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim | ||
| 作者 | Kriesel, Deanna K. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| 卷期 | v.73 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2018.09 |
| 頁次 | 227 - 259 |
| 出版者 | University of California Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://journals.ucpress.edu |
| 出版地 | Oakland, CA, US [奧克蘭, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; Victorian psychology; Rudyard Kipling; Kim; Esoteric practice |
| 摘要 | This essay demonstrates that Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901) engages deeply with several aspects of Buddhist thought that were also of central concern to nineteenth-century British psychology. It describes several central tenets of Buddhism as understood by Victorian exegetes, paying particular attention to the ways this discourse became surprisingly approbatory over the course of the century. It also performs close readings of three key passages in Kipling’s novel dealing with identity, will, and self-discipline that illuminate the author’s understanding of the subtleties of Buddhist thought. Its attention to the ways in which Kipling’s novel engages Asian religious practice, particularly the “esoteric” practices of meditation and trance, complicates an entrenched reading of the novel as championing British triumphalism; it does so by challenging earlier interpretations of the religious elements in Kim as constituting straightforward evidence for the novel’s endorsement of the imperial project. |
| 目次 | Abstract 258 Keywords 259 |
| ISSN | 08919356 (P); 10678352 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 102 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.06.21 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.11.22 |
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