James Joyce's Aesthetic Theory
Author : Dolf Sörensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004650482
James Joyce's Aesthetic Theory
Author : Dolf Sörensen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 9789062032006
Book Description
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author : James Joyce
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775417891
Book Description
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent.
Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
Author : Fran O'Rourke
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813072239
Book Description
A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce In this book, Fran O’Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author’s oeuvre. O’Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge. Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces Joyce’s discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and personal aesthetic theory. O’Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle that Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce’s application of Aquinas’s aesthetic principles. The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical underpinnings of Joyce’s work. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West
Author : Steve Odin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824823740
Book Description
Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily Japanese) aesthetic theory. Weaving between cultures and time periods, the author focuses on a remarkably wide range of theories: in the West, the Kantian notion of disinterested contemplation, Heidegger's Gelassenheit, semiotics, and pragmatism; in Japan, Zeami's notion of riken no ken, the Kyoto School's intepretation of nothingness, D. T. Suzuki's analysis of the function of no-mind, and the writings of Kuki Shuzo on Buddhist detachment. "Portrait of the artist" fiction by such writers as Henry James, James Joyce, Mori Ogai, and Natsume Soseki demonstrates how the main theme of detachment is expressed in literary traditions. The role of sympathy or pragmatism in relation to disinterest is examined, suggesting conflicts within or challenges to the notion of detachment. Researchers and students in Eastern and Western areas of study, including philosophers and religionists, as well as literary and cultural critics, will deem this work an invaluable contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and literary studies.
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity
Author : Allison Pease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521780766
Book Description
How did explicit sexual representation become acceptable in the twentieth century as art rather than pornography? Allison Pease answers this question by tracing the relationship between aesthetics and obscenity from the 1700s onwards, highlighting the way in which early twentieth-century writers incorporated a sexually explicit discourse into their work. Pease explores how artists such as Swinburne, Aubrey Beardsley, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence were responsible for shifting the boundaries between aesthetics and pornography that first became of intellectual interest in the eighteenth century and reinforced class distinctions. Her analysis of canonical works, such as Joyce's Ulysses and Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, is framed by a wide-ranging examination of the changing conceptions of aesthetics from Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Kant to F. R. Leavis, I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot. Based on extensive archival work, the book includes examples of period art and illustrations which eloquently demonstrate the shift in public taste and tolerance.
The Aesthetics of Chaosmos
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
In this short discussion of the Irish modernist writer, the author establishes a link between the mind of James Joyce and medieval theology. He shows how Joyce's fiction was suffused by his reading of St. Thomas Aquinas, Giordano Bruno and Nicola da Cusa and the book creates a dialogue between the saint, the novelist and the critic.
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words
Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781577314066
Book Description
The mythographer who has command of scholarly literature, the analytic ability and the lucid prose and the staying power.
James Joyce and German Theory
Author : Barbara Laman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838640296
Book Description
James Joyce's aesthetic theories, as explicated by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in the Scylla and Charybdis chapter of Ulysses, have generally been assumed to be grounded in Aristotle and Aquinas. Indeed, Stephen mentions those thinkers especially in Portrait, at the same time as he rejects Romantic notions. This book investigates the extent to which Joyce's theories as well as his practice, beginning with his critical writings and Stephen Hero, are indebted to early German Romanticism. The allusions, affinities, and analogies, as well as differential relationships between the Joycean oeuvre and texts of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Schiegel, and Novalis are often palpable, sometimes tentative, but clearly present in most of his works, including Finnegans Wake.
Marginal Modernity:The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
Author : Leonard Lisi
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823245322
Book Description
Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo Lisi argues that these models rest on assumptions about the nature of truth and existence that cannot be treated as exhaustive of modern experience. Lisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's Scandinavian periphery as his point of departure, Lisi examines how Kierkegaard and Ibsen imagined a response to the changing conditions of modernity different from those at the European core, one that subsequently influenced James, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, and Joyce. Combining close readings with a broader revision of the nature and genealogy of modernism, Marginal Modernity challenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive our relation to the modern world.
