Donne, John
(London 1572-1631 London) : Schriftsteller, Dichter
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Literature : Occident : Great Britain
Chronology Entries (10)
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| 1 | 1930-2000 |
John Donne and China : general Yan Kui : Donne was briefly introduced in the 1930s, his entrance into China's academic world had to wait until the 1980s. Most of the publications in the 1980s were introductory in nature, they were all instructive and authentic. When the Chinese scholars began their study of Donne, they found themselves stuck in two traditions : modern Western theories and traditional Chinese training. One of the results of Donne studies in the 1990s was an increase of the perspectives from which to investiage Donne's works. The most original was comparatist studies, which were to develop right into the new century. Insofar as Donne was concerned, the basic trends of such studies were to compare him with either a Chinese poet or an English poet. The most significant studies were by Zhang Xuechun from 1995 to 1998. Besides comparative study, other integral contributions to Donne studies in China include thematic, textual, and theoretical inquiries. Most Chinese scholars choose to be part of the mainstream, though they differ in the ways they conduct their research. Some of them focus on individual ideas, some on a given genre, and some on a chosen poem. Donne studies quickly developed to be one of China's top academic priorities in the field of English literature. A most significant aspect os this interest is evinced in the change of textbooks. An other development that confirms the growth of Donne studies in China is serial studies. After 2000, critical evaluations of Donne expanded to include not only studies of more of his poems but also relevant criticisms of his poems. Compared with earlier studies, these evaluations were more scholarly and more responsive to the schools and approaches of Donne studies in the West. There is a lack of translation of Donne's complete works into Chinese, the absence of conversation among Donne scholars and the difficulties of getting acess to recent publications from outside China. |
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| 2 | 1983 |
Anthology of English literature annotated in Chinese = Yingguo wen xue ming pian xuan zhu [ID D31008]. Yang Zhouhan portrayed Donne as a unique poet who simultaneously challenged his predecessors but defied later imitations. He viewed Donne's poetry as a record of the inner sufferings of the poet constantly struggling to fit into the new faith ; and above all, he read Donne's prose as what he called 'diluted poetry'. |
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| 3 | 2000 |
Yan, Kui. Duoen [John Donne] jie'ai zhong di yuan xing yi xiang [ID D30997]. Discusses Donne's use of round images in ValMourn in terms of Copernican cosmology and Donne's idea of a circular life. Argues that the poem is a philosophical inquiry into man's general identity against the background of cosmic reconstruction. Maintains that this study helps to explain the beauty of the images in the poem as well as Donne's unique position in English literature. |
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| 4 | 2001 |
Yan, Kui. Shi ren Duo'en yan jiu = A systematic venture into John Donne [ID D30990]. In the introduction Yan Kui points out that, for the most part, Donne still awaits discovery in China and hopes that the present study will help readers understand Donne in particular, metaphysical poetry in general, and English literature as a whole. In Part I, Love Poetry discusses the major stylistic and the¬matic characteristics of Donne's love poems. Argues that by exploring such themes as woman's unfaithfulness, man's fickleness, and love as the unification of body and soul, Donne conducts a dialectical search for truth. Shows how Donne uses an orderly past and chaotic present interactively to reveal the nature of man in a world of political, religious, and social conflict. Maintains that Donne's image of death in his poems shows how he has a sense of belonging to both of the two conflicting worlds. Holds that the pleasure of reading Donne's poetry comes from the vitality of his mind and from his elaborate uses of dramatic elements, paradox, and conceit. In Part II, Divine Poetry focuses on Donne's desire to be united with God and on the archetypal journey in his religious poems. Sees Donne's divine poems as a record of his personal struggle to appropriate divine revelation to himself, to intensify his sense of moral obligation, and as an appeal to Christ as both lover and savior. Maintains that the religious poetry is motivated by a passion as strong as anything in his love poems and reveals his vigorous search for truth. In Part III, The Sermons explores Donne's role as a poet-priest and his search for divine truth as seen in his sermons. Points out striking similarities and differences between his sermons and his poetry, claiming that his sermons are, in fact, poetry without rhyme. In the conclusion, maintains that Donne's works show a sevenfold interaction between content and form, convention and originality, life and art, literature and ideology, poetry and prose, mirror and lamp. Contains a bibliography, an index of works by Donne, and an index of names. |
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| 5 | 2001 |
Li, Zhengshuan. Mo sheng hua : Yuehan Deng'en de shi ge yi shu = Defamiliarisation : the poetic art of John Donne [ID D30991]. Studies Donne's poetry in terms of Victor Shklovsky's theory of defamiliarization. In the introduction, discusses how Shklovsky's term describes the unconventionality of Donne's poetry and announces that the purpose of the study is to show how Donne "achieves defamiliarisation in modes of thinking, imagery, and form". In Chapter 1, "Defamiliarisation in modes of thinking", focuses on ways Donne defamiliarizes himself in his thinking by his "unification of the secular and the divine" and by "his unique way of combining thought and feeling"- In Chapter 2, "Defamiliarisation in Imagery", studies Donne's use of images, "focusing on how he defamiliarises poetic convention by employing images drawn from science for the illustration of love and his religious ideas". Discusses also how Donne defamiliarizes conventional images used by Petrarch and other earlier poets. In Chapter 3, "Defamiliarisation in Form", discusses how Donne defamiliarizes "poetic convention by using colloquialism and impeded movement rendered by irregular punctuation and indentation, by means of which the perception is prolonged to leave more than enough time for the reader to think about what the poems convey". Comments also on how Donne departs from poetic convention by inventing new stanzaic forms, especially in the Songs and Sonets, and discusses the dramatic technique of Donne's poetry, calling Donne "a dramatist in the realm of lyric poetry". In the Epilogue, reevaluates Shklovsky's theory, pointing out its merits and weaknesses; presents a general assessment of Donne's poetry, concluding that Donne is "a down-to-earth realist" ; and comments briefly on Donne's influence on later poets and suggests possible future studies of Donne. Concludes with notes, a selected bibliography and acknowledgments. |
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| 6 | 2001 |
Yan, Kui. Hu dong : Duoen [John Donne] de yi shu mei li [ID D30992] Discusses the complex interaction between divinity and secularity, tradition and creativity, and life and art in Donne's poetry. Comments on Lect, Ecst, ElBed, Twick, and ConfL to show how religious elements appear in Donne's love poems and discusses HSShow and Father to illustrate how secular passion is skillfully incorporated in religious poems. Holds that the interaction between tradition and creativity and between religion and secularity challenges the old notion of a Jack and John Donne. In the interaction of the sacred and the profane, sees a combination of three elements: use of conceit, cosmic awareness of humanity, and the tradition of dream literature. Illustrates this idea by citing SunRis, Canon, Air, Ecst, Anniv, Metem, LovExch, Noct, LovAlch, and ValWeep. Considering the interaction of life and art, cites examples from El- War, Fever, Relic, FunEl, and Leg. Calls interaction the “unique spell” of Donne's works. |
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| 7 | 2001 |
Yan, Kui. Lun Duoen de yu zhou ren sheng yi she [ID D30993]. Discusses John Donne's attempts to reconcile the old and new philosophy and maintains that such an attempt shows itself in three basic paradoxes and the poet's awareness of a cosmological individualism. Concludes that Donne is a distant father of modern poetry. |
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| 8 | 2001 |
Zhang, Deming. Xuan xue pai shi ren de nan quan yi shi yu zhi min hua yu [ID D30994]. Maintains that male chauvinism and colonialism are closely related in Donne's poetry and discusses ElBed as an example. Comments on how Donne’s view was shaped by his life and by contemporary society. |
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| 9 | 2003 |
Yan, Kui. Ai de jian zheng [John Donne]. [ID D30995]. Argues that ValMourn "abounds in round images, physical, spiritual, and structural, of which the first two are encircled within the third". Maintains that these round images are "symbolic of a perfect love and a harmonious universe" and that the poem "works as a promise to true love, a hope for universal exploration, and a speculation on the relationship between man and nature, body and soul, contradiction and harmony, all identical with the round images that are the fruit of a strong sensibility and the emblem of eternal love". |
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| 10 | 2005 |
Yan, Kui. Sheng ming de li zan [John Donne]. [ID D30996]. Reads Metem, FirAn, and SecAn as an epic trilogy on how the Soul of the World has experienced a circular life experience by its adventurous journey from Eden to Earth and finally to Heaven. In the preface, surveys past Donnean criticism, rejects the old Jack-John Donne dichotomy, and sees the trilogy, written in Donne's middle years, as a bridge between his secular love poetry and his divine poems. In Chapter 1, "A Song of the Soul: A Chronological Study", discusses how Donne creates his view of the Soul of the world, a view that reflects the fall-rise pattern prevalent in Renaissance thought. Argues that this view allows him to see the journey of the Soul of the World as reflecting his own spiritual progress. Points out that all three poems contain an invocation, a body, and a conclusion and that the body of each contains eight sections, which suggests that the three poems share a similar design, which is further reenforced by numerous repetitions of similar words and ideas. Maintains that Donne's presentation in the trilogy of life by death, of beauty by ugliness, and of truth by deception reflects his theological perspective. In Chapter 2 "Humanistic concerns : A synchronic study", focuses on four essential themes found throughout the trilogy: self, life, love, and change. Maintains that the theme of self is seen best in the invocations of the three poems, where the anima mundi and "I" are intermixed, dialectically creating out of the "deathlesse soule" an eternal self symbolic of the macrocosm and microcosm. Sees the trilogy as a song both of the individual soul and of the soul of human beings in general. Says that the theme of life pivots in Metem on the metempsychosis of the anima mundi, in FirAn on the frailty and decay of the world, and in SecAn on the exaltation of the soul into the world from which it came. Notes that the theme of love pervades all three poems but that its focus shifts from secular love to divine love, a shift that enriches the concept of love. Claims that in the trilogy change is combined with constancy, working both as a theme and as background: as theme it acts as a foil to support the notion of the soul's eternal life in Metem and to support the concept of the beauty and divinity of the heavenly world in the two Anniversaries; as background, it brings together the other themes and builds up part of Donne's cosmological philosophy. In Chapter 3, "Cosmological life : a background study", explores Donne's cosmological philosophy in terms of his poetic reconstruction of the cosmos, one that ponders on Pythagorean harmony and order and that was called forth by the Copernican revolution and one that centers on the redemption of the soul. Concludes that this reconstruction shapes Donne's philosophy of life that is embodied in the four essential themes, giving rise to his uses of paradox and wit and defining the trilogy as a psalm of life. Contains a conclusion, an index of names, a list of works cited, a chronology of Donne's life and a postscript. |
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Bibliography (5)
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| 1 | 1920 |
Hu, Shi. Chang shi ji. (Shanghai : Ya dong tu shu guan, 1920). [Anthologie Lyrik]. [Enthält Übersetzungen von] : Campbell, Thomas. [Ein Gedicht]. (1908). Browning, Robert. Optimism (1914). Byron, George Gordon. Ai Xila = The Isles of Greece. (1914). Ketchum, Arthur. Mu men xing = Ballad of the cemetery gate. (1915). Teasdale, Sara. Over the roofs. 嘗試集 : 附去國集 Hu, Shi. Chang shi hou ji. [Enthält Übersetzungen von acht englischen Gedichten] : Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward FitzGerald. 嘗試後集 |
Publication / HuS4 |
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| 2 | 1983 |
Anthology of English literature annotated in Chinese = Yingguo wen xue ming pian xuan zhu. Wang Cuoliang [et al.] zhu bian. (Beijing : Shang wu yin shu guan, 1983). [Entlish and Chinese]. 英国文学名篇选注 [Enthält] : Donne, John. Song : go and catch a falling star ; The canonization ; A valediction : of weeping ; A valediction : forbidding mourning ; Holy sonnet VII. |
Publication / DonJ14 | |
| 3 | 1983 |
Yingguo shi xuan : Shashibiya zhi Aodun : fu Faguo shi shi er shou : Bodelai'er zhi Supeiwei’ai'er. Bian Zhilin bian yi. (Changsha : Hunan ren min chu ban she, 1983). [A Chinese selection of English poetry : from Shakespeare to Auden with the original texts]. 英国诗选 : 莎士比亚至奧顿 : 附法国诗十二首: 波德莱尔至苏佩维埃尔 [Enthält] : [Donne, John]. Bie li ci jie'ai. Bian Zhilin yi. (Changsha : Hunan ren min chu ban she, 1983). Übersetzung von Donne, John. Song : go and catch a falling star ; A valediction : forbidding mourning. 别离辞 : 节哀 |
Publication / Shak216 | |
| 4 | 1987 |
Qiu, Xiaolong. Lun Duo'en he ta de ai qing shi. In : Shi jie wen xue ; no 5 (1984). [On Donne’s love poetry]. 论多恩和他的爱情诗 [Enthält] : Donne, John. Cheng sheng ; Bie li ci jie’ai ; Tai yang sheng qi le ; Po xiao ; Gao bie ai : ku qi ; Sheng gu. Übersetzung von Donne, John. The canonization, A valediction : forbidding morning, The sun rising, Break of day, A valediction : of weeping. 成圣 ; 别离辞:节哀 ; 太阳升起了 ; 破晓 ; 告别辞 ; 哭泣 ; 圣骨 |
Publication / DonJ15 | |
| 5 | 1999 |
[Donne, John]. Yan qing shi yu shen xue shi. Yuehan Danen zhu ; Fu Hao yi. (Beijing : Zhongguo dui wai fan yi chu ban gong si, 1999). (Yingguo wen xue jing dian wen ku). [Übersetzung von Auszügen aus Songs and sonets, Elegies und Divine poems von Donne. Enthält eine Biographie von Donne und einen Essay von Fu Hao über Holy sonnets]. 艳情诗与神学 |
Publication / DonJ2 |
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Secondary Literature (15)
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| 1 | 1973 |
Deeney, John J. Yue du fu dao : Deng Yuehan de shi = A study guide to John Donne's poetry. Chief editors: Li Dasan = John J. Deeney, Tan Deyi = Pierre Demers (Taibei : Hong dao wen hua shi ye you xian gong si, 1973). 阅讀輔導 : 鄧约翰的詩 |
Publication / DonJ4 | |
| 2 | 1977 |
Wong, Yoon-wah [Wang, Runhua]. Yuan gui yu shui jing : liang shou qu yu shi zhi bi chiao yan jiu = Comparative study of two metaphysical conceits in the poetry of Chia Tao and John Donne. (Singapore : Nanyang da xue yan jiu yuan, 1977). (Occasional paper series ; no 76). 圆规与水井 : 兩首曲喻诗之比较研究 |
Publication / DonJ3 | |
| 3 | 1978 | Suen, Sam Chung-sang. The metaphysical in poetry : a comparative study of the poetry of Han Yu and John Donne. Dissertation State University of New York, 1978. MS. | Publication / Don1 | |
| 4 | 1987 |
Qiu, Xiaolong. Lun Duo'en he ta de ai qing shi. In : Shi jie wen xue ; no 5 (1984). [On Donne’s love poetry]. 论多恩和他的爱情诗 [Enthält] : Donne, John. Cheng sheng ; Bie li ci jie’ai ; Tai yang sheng qi le ; Po xiao ; Gao bie ai : ku qi ; Sheng gu. Übersetzung von Donne, John. The canonization, A valediction : forbidding morning, The sun rising, Break of day, A valediction : of weeping. 成圣 ; 别离辞:节哀 ; 太阳升起了 ; 破晓 ; 告别辞 ; 哭泣 ; 圣骨 |
Publication / DonJ15 | |
| 5 | 1988 | Wong, Yoon Wah. Essays on Chinese literature : a comparative approach. (Singapore : University Press, 1988). [Enthält : The influence of Western literature on China's first modern story ; The parallelism between Aristotle's and two Chinese novelists' principles of Catharsis ; The well and the compass : a comparative study of two mataphysical conceits in the poetry of Jia Dao and John Donne.] | Publication / Don2 | |
| 6 | 2000 |
Yan, Kui. Duoen jie'ai zhong di yuan xing yi xiang. In : Journal of Yunnan Normal University = Yunnan shi fan da xue xue bao (2000). [Donne's "A valediction : forbidding mourning"]. 多恩节哀中的圆形意象 |
Publication / DonJ12 |
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| 7 | 2001 |
Yan, Kui. Shi ren Duo'en yan jiu = A systematic venture into John Donne. (Chengdu : Sichuan da xue chu ban she, 2001). 诗人多恩研究 |
Publication / DonJ5 |
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| 8 | 2001 |
Li, Zhengshuan. Mo sheng hua : Yuehan Deng'en de shi ge yi shu = Defamiliarisation : the poetic art of John Donne. (Beijing : Beijing University Press, 2001). 陌生化 : 约翰邓恩的诗歌艺朮 |
Publication / DonJ6 |
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| 9 | 2001 |
Yan, Kui. Hu dong : Duoen de yi shu mei li. In : Journal of Peking University = Beijing da xue xue bao (2001). [Interaction: the spell of John Donne.] 互动 : 多恩的艺术魅力 |
Publication / DonJ7 |
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| 10 | 2001 |
Yan, Kui. Lun Duoen de yu zhou ren sheng yi she. In : Journal of Yunnan Normal University = Yunnan shi fan da xue xue bao ; vol. 33, no. 3 (2001). [On Donne's cosmological awareness]. 论多恩的宇宙人生意识 |
Publication / DonJ8 |
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| 11 | 2001 |
Zhang, Deming. Xuan xue pai shi ren de nan quan yi shi yu zhi min hua yu. In : Journal of Zhejiang University = Zhejiang da xue xue bao ; no. 5 (2001). [Male chauvinism and colonialism of metaphysical poets]. [Betr. John Donne]. 玄学派诗人的男权意识与殖民话语 |
Publication / DonJ9 |
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| 12 | 2003 |
Yan, Kui. Ai de jian zheng. In : Journal of Zhaotong Teachers' College = Zhaotong shi zhuan xue bao ; no. 1 (2003). [The emblem of love : on the round images in "Forbidding mourning" by John Donne]. 爱的见证 |
Publication / DonJ10 |
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| 13 | 2005 |
Yan, Kui. Sheng ming de li zan. (Beijing : Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2005). [A song of life : on John Donne’s trilogy of the soul. 生命的礼赞 |
Publication / DonJ11 | |
| 14 | 2007 | Yan, Kui. A glory to come : John Donne studies in China. In : John Donne journal ; vol. 26, (2007). | Publication / DonJ13 |
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| 15 | 2011 |
Roberts, John R. An annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1996-2005. (2011). http://donnevariorum.tamu.edu/resources/robertsbib/Roberts1996.pdf. |
Publication / DonJ1 |
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