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The Sensual Philosophy: James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism Book
The Sensual Philosophy offers a richly illuminating reading of James Joyces canon, placing his texts in the context of the medieval mystical tradition that had influenced and interested Joyce since his school days. In exploring Joyces indebtedness to the artistic and theological culture of the Middle Ages, Colleen Jaurretche also identifies the origins of modernist aesthetics in medieval forms of representation. Jaurretche follows the imprint of the negative mystical traditionwhich seeks to surmount all human categories and sensations so as to encounter the divinefrom 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 Joyces mystical aesthetic through a critical examination of his novels, culminating in the supreme negative mystical aestheticism of Finnegans Wake.Read More
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- 0299156206
- 9780299156206
- Colleen Jaurretche
- 31 October 1997
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 176
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