頁籤選單縮合
題名 | The Role of the Guide in Catabatic Journeys: Virgil's Aeneid, Dant's Divine Comedy, and Lo Mou-teng's The Voyage to the Westem Sea of the Chief Eunuch San-pao= |
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作者 | Ru,Yi-ling; |
期刊 | Tamkang Review |
出版日期 | 19890900 |
卷期 | 20:1 民78.秋 |
頁次 | 頁67-75 |
分類號 | 849.51 |
語文 | eng |
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英文摘要 | Across language, time and culture, man’s vision of the underworld has been remarkably consistent.、Though the catabatic journeys in Virgil’s and Dante’s works have often been examined, they have never been compared with the Chinese journey to the Underworld Kingdom Feng-tu. The latter is described from Chapter eighty-six to ninety-three of Lo Mou-teng’s book The Voyage. My paper is a comparative study of the role of the guide in the above works. It is remarkable that each of the three authors has created a guide in their imaginary journeys to the underworld. In addition, the role of each of the three guides as they have created in these classical works in question, are surprisingly identical. Besides the physical guidance to the unknown underworld, the guide plays an important role in the trip as a Divine messenger and spiritual leader. Similar to Sibyl in the Aeneid and Virgil in Dante's work, the Chinese guide, P’an-kuan, knows the purpose of the catabatic journey and leads the travellers through an education by viewing the placement of ghosts in this underworld set up by Confucian moral codes. Despite the differences in philosophies, religions and beliefs, the basic principle of rewarding the good and punishing the evil amazingly resembles its western counterparts. I will argue that it is the archetype from the collective unconsciousness that determines the parallel creation of the guide in each of these three divergent works. |
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