에머슨, 멜빌, 동양 종교 사상

• 영문명: Emerson, Melville, and the Oriental Religious Thoughts
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 허정명(Jung Myung Huh)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제107호, 1~19쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

Emerson and Melville paid a huge amount of attention to spiritual themes, and it was known in their own time that each had a growing interest in Eastern religious thoughts. Emerson read The Bhagavad Gita. while still a student at Harvard and later coined the term "Oversoul" from his concept of the Brahman/Atman union. Melville also pursued spiritual themes in his works vigorously. Though Melville's works show despair and uncertainty, he powerfully describes expanded states of awareness brought by compassion and especially suffering. Melville has been accused of pessimism, nihilism and atheism But that is a Western response to an unfamiliar way of perceiving. Western craving for forms and definitions brings a biased view on the oriental system of thought which stresses emptiness, no soul, and the efficacy of suffering. Buddhist texts show how the dismantling of the individual ego results ultimately in compassion, expanded awareness, and joy rather than resignation. Emerson's psychological tendencies align him more closely with the Hindu way of perceiving, and Melville's works show a peculiarly Buddhist quality.

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멜빌 에머슨 초월주의 동양사상 불교 힌두교 Emerson. Melville Oriental Ideas Transcendentalism Buddhism Hinduism