Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats
[Book]
by Tudor Balinisteanu.
London Palgrave Macmillan UK
2015
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Argument and ContextsPART I: THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND SOCIAL ACTION1. Yeats and Art as a Form of Religious Experience2. Joyce and Art as a Form of Religious Experience3. Sorel's Social Myth and Art as a Form of Religious ExperiencePART II: READER RESPONSE AND SOCIAL ACTION4. Aesthetic Experience, Religion, and Economic Materialism in Yeats5. Aesthetic Experience, Religion, and Economic Materialism in Joyce6. Sorel's Social Myth, Aesthetico-Religious Experience, and Economic MaterialismConclusion: Art and Life RhythmsNotesBibliography
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.