Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats

by T. Balinisteanu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137434760
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/06/2015
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Tudor Balinisteanu obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow in English Literature at University of Suceava, Romania. He is the author of Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions (Palgrave, 2013), and Narrative, Social Myth, and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women's Writing: Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr (2009). He has also published in a number of UK, Irish, Canadian, and US journals.

Table of Contents

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