乔纳森·洛克·哈特文集（英文版）（6卷）

　　In the Sonnets a conflict occurs between the ruins of time and the gilded monuments of Shakespeare's powerful thyme that is set out in the desire between rhetoric and poetics， lust and love. How in the formal elegance and compression of the sonnet does Shakespeare represent a longing for eternity or a remembrance of things past or a wish for the extension of the evanescence of physical love into some timeless poetic moment? How much of the self-conscious rhetorical hyperbole of a poetics that would outlast other monuments in exploring love represents a conflict that recognizes the impossibility of such a vaunting verbal world? Paradoxically， this overreaching language， especially in conjunction and friction with the levelling rhetoric of lust and death， displays the only hope for love and poetics in the possible world of Shakespeare's poetry.This attempt to reach beyond language and the forms of poetry also occurs in the sonnets in Shakespeare's plays. While this chapter will emphasize primarily the great sonnet sequence， it will also examine some of the dramatic contests as a means of suggesting how Shakespeare explores time and death in his sonnets generally and how that exploration calls attention to the limits and possibilities of poetry and the sonnet.The chapter begins with a general discussion of the Sonnets， proceeds to a brief examination of Shakespeare's sonnet in various dramatic contexts and then analyzes some key poems at the beginning， middle and end of the Sonnets. It is impossible to be exhaustive with the Sonnets， and no attempt has been made to be so. While the argument takes into account the vexed question of the order of the Sonnets， it does notdepend on that order.The Sonnets are neither strictly love's argument nor a drama with fully-embodied characters. They cannot be resolved into the key with which Shakespeare unlocked his heart， as Wordsworth thought， or a denial of their autobiographical nature， as Browning contended. Criticism is full of partial insights， like those Wordsworth and Browning offered， but taken together these partialities help to address the complexity of literature itself and some of its most perplexing works， like Shakespeare's sonnets.The part my essay will play in this critical drama is to seek out the limits of Shakespeare's language， his poetics and rhetoric， in these enigmatic lyrics and to do so most especially as he explores the outer boundary of life itself： death. Shakespeare's keeping time in the face of time the destroyer - whether he addresses the young man or the mistress， whether he proclaims the virtues of regeneration or laments the loss of youth and love， whether he contends with time through the boast of words or the heat of lust - constitutes the heart of this exploration of the Sonnets，Shakespeare uses dialectic， rhetoric and poetics to face the ghost that haunts life，the dark gap of time and the skull beneath the skin. The confrontation of death，sometimes with despair or with the celebration of life， dwells behind the crumbling edifice of language and culture. In the tensions， inverted relations and paradoxes of love and death lie that unexplored country Hamlet looked into and whose liminality made him shrink back and face those than cross the bourn to the afterlife， another world that could only be imagined. The narrator or speaker in the Sonnets must， in the drama of time and in the conflicted space between master and mistress， look into the abyss of his existence and express that gaze in a language that attempts to reach beyond its own boundaries， a gesturing that seeks to make the impossible possible.z The strains of language as its end leave the speaker， those he addresses， the poet and the reader seeking a comic ending， the happy circumstance of love， but in a tragic dilemma as humans are fools of love because they are fools of time. Whether the expression of faith can resolve this sense of tragedy into something happy and comic is the deadly game，the play of the reclamation of wit， the serious but not always solemn procession or fragmentation called the Sonnets.

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　　《比较文学、理论与诗学》：
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　　《他者、殖民主义与后殖民主义》：
　　该书为6卷本《乔纳森·洛克·哈特文集（英文版）》之卷3，聚焦他者、殖民主义与后殖民主义的研究。本卷首先为读者展示了对他者概念的解读和历史追溯，点明对他者理论的质疑，并指出学界对他者的成见和模式化理解。其后的章节以具体的人物形象为分析内容，从扩张与殖民角度展示了西班牙、葡萄牙、英国、法国及其他欧洲国家的相关问题，还包括对殖民主义话语的分析。该书可供外国文学研究者参考阅读。
　　
　　《乔纳森·洛克·哈特诗选》：
　　该书为6卷本《乔纳森·洛克·哈特文集（英文版）》之卷4，收集了作为诗人的哈特1974年至2001年前后的100首诗歌作品，并为这些诗歌作品提供了中译文。诗歌中众多意象得到了中文解读，可为英语诗歌爱好者阅读欣赏。
　　
　　《莎士比亚与历史》：
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