Social myth and James Joyce's political aesthetic

pp. 79-93

in: Tudor Balinisteanu, Violence, narrative and myth in Joyce and Yeats, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Joyce's political aesthetic in relation to the concept of myth. This relation is analysed through using Georges Sorel's theorisation of social myth. The analysis is developed in terms of discursive subjection and desubjection, which are defined through Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of monoglossia and heteroglossia.