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The Sensual Philosophy - James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism (Hardcover)
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The Sensual Philosophy - James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism (Hardcover)
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The Sensual Philosophy offers a richly illuminating reading of
James Joyce's canon, placing his texts in the context of the
medieval mystical tradition that had influenced and interested
Joyce since his school days. In exploring Joyce's 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 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.
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