Jaurretche follows the imprint of the "negative" mystical tradition—which seeks to surmount all human categories and sensations so as to encounter the divine—from its beginnings in the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite through its culmination in the sixteenth-century writings of St. John of the Cross. Joyce sees these ideas, she notes, in the intellectual tradition of late Victorian and early Modern writers, such as William Blake, Walter Pater, Francis Thompson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats. She traces the development of Joyce's mystical aesthetic through a critical examination of his novels, culminating in the supreme negative mystical aestheticism of Finnegans Wake.
Jaurretche follows the imprint of the "negative" mystical tradition—which seeks to surmount all human categories and sensations so as to encounter the divine—from its beginnings in the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite through its culmination in the sixteenth-century writings of St. John of the Cross. Joyce sees these ideas, she notes, in the intellectual tradition of late Victorian and early Modern writers, such as William Blake, Walter Pater, Francis Thompson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats. She traces the development of Joyce's mystical aesthetic through a critical examination of his novels, culminating in the supreme negative mystical aestheticism of Finnegans Wake.
Sensual Philosophy: Joyce And The Aesthetics Of Mysticism
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Sensual Philosophy: Joyce And The Aesthetics Of Mysticism
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780299156206 |
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| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Publication date: | 01/15/1998 |
| Series: | Central Asia Book |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |