Interesting Digression: Byron's "don Juan

About This Novel

The 19th-century British romantic poet Byron's long poem "Don Juan" is a famous masterpiece in British poetry. It is 16,000 lines long and is unfinished. The poem uses the legend of Don Juan in European history as a carrier, but it breaks through various boundaries. The direction of the story is often unexpected, and part of the context is also slanted. It frequently incorporates seemingly unrelated content, including the poet's own pleasant comments on current hot issues. In the end, it becomes a whole of its own, belonging to its own era, but also incompatible. It becomes a classic because of its "alien". The work is such that it still leaves room for interpretation. This academic work uses the concept of "digression" to cover various related phenomena in this long poem. It treats digression in a broad sense as an object of inquiry rich in literary and philosophical significance. It uses the history of thought, Western epic tradition, literary trends, irony techniques, religious culture, ideographic formulas, and female focal figures to explore the specific meanings of digression at different levels, scales, and natures. The book's development process also had many interactions with internationally representative critical opinions, and used this to outline the author's own thinking perspective. Overall, it formed an academic discourse that crosses cultural boundaries and uses important Western literary works as the working surface.

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