Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats [electronic resource] : Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions /
Balinisteanu, T.author.
How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Yeats's Revolving Gyres: A Metaphorical Language for the Modern Experience of Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Political Aesthetics; 2 Social Myth, Material Reality, and the Aesthetico-Ideological Functions of Art; 3 The Political Aesthetic of Yeats's Myth in Anarchist and Syndicalist Contexts; 4 Social Myth, Literary Narrative, and Political Aesthetics; 5 Social Myth and James Joyce's Political Aesthetic; 6 Social and Anti-social Aesthetic Drives in Joyce, Yeats, and Sorel; 7 W. B. Yeats, Social Myth, and Monoglossia
8 James Joyce, Social Myth, and Heteroglossia9 Heteroglossic Desubjection and Monoglossic Subjection in Joyce, Yeats, and Sorel: Social Myth, Anarchy, and Syndicalism; 10 Modernism, Myth, Violence, and Social Change; 11 Modernist Art, Politics, and Social Change: A Sorelian Perspective; 12 Modernism, Narrative, and Violence; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.