Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats [electronic resource] /
Balinisteanu, T.author.
This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements  Introduction: Argument and Contexts  PART I: THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND SOCIAL ACTION 1. Yeats and Art as a Form of Religious Experience  2. Joyce and Art as a Form of Religious Experience  3. Sorel's Social Myth and Art as a Form of Religious Experience  PART II: READER RESPONSE AND SOCIAL ACTION  4. Aesthetic Experience, Religion, and Economic Materialism in Yeats  5. Aesthetic Experience, Religion, and Economic Materialism in Joyce  6. Sorel's Social Myth, Aesthetico-Religious Experience, and Economic Materialism  Conclusion: Art and Life Rhythms  Notes  Bibliography.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Aesthetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Aesthetics.