文學院: 外國語文學研究所指導教授: 吳雅鳳金仁皓Chin, Jen-haoJen-haoChin2017-03-022018-05-292017-03-022018-05-292016http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/272208John Clare’s pre-asylum nature writing (1804-1837) problematizes critical inquiry on two fronts: literary taste and scientific knowledge concerning nature. Most scholars follow the trajectory of ecocriticism, but unfortunately they often treat literary texts a-historically. To redress such an oversight, this thesis sees both John Clare’s intervention into literary canon and knowledge formation as two aesthetic choices driven by similar causes. The present thesis contends that Clare challenges decorum existent in the Romantic era through a “rhetorical strategy of awkwardness,” in which the polite / rude binary within the neoclassical tradition is deliberately destabilized in writings about natural vulgarity. On the one hand, Clare’s concern for the rude in terms of theme and style can be viewed as a trespassing act, which embarrasses the general reading public. On the other, Clare’s application of natural history to literature carries out another major trespass. Crossing the boundary between social identities and the disciplinary / methodological divide, this poet-naturalist’s nature writing opens up possibilities for the democratization of taste and knowledge.1014055 bytesapplication/pdf論文公開時間: 2019/8/25論文使用權限: 同意有償授權(權利金給回饋學校)約翰•克萊爾自然書寫品味尷尬自然歷史侵越知識民主化John Clarenature writingtasteawkwardnessnatural historytrespassdemocratizationthesis10.6342/NTU201603465http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/272208/1/ntu-105-R01122013-1.pdf