Modern Political Aesthetics from Romantic to Modernist Fiction

Tudor Balinisteanu is currently a Research Fellow in English Literature at University of Suceava, Romania. He is the author of Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats (2015), Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions (2013), and Narrative, Social Myth, and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women's Writing: Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr (2009). He has also published in a number of British, Irish, Canadian, and American journals.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Bruno Latour: The Traditional Subject and the Articulated Body amidst Statements, Propositions, and Compositions

2 Dance and the Social Language of Action

3 Conscious and Unconscious Projections of Economic Forces in Wordsworth’s Writing

4 Confronting the Capitalist Unconscious: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

5 The Poetic Dimension of Anarcho-Syndicalist Politics in Nueva Australia

6 Yeats’s Dancers Dancing

7 Joyce’s Choreographies of Gesture

8 Choreographies of Social Performance

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index