Modern Political Aesthetics from Romantic to Modernist Literature

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 FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Bruno Latour: The Traditional Subject and the Articulated Body amidst Statements, Propositions, and Compositions2 Dance and the Social Language of Action3 Conscious and Unconscious Projections of Economic Forces in Wordsworth’s Writing4 Confronting the Capitalist Unconscious: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness5 The Poetic Dimension of Anarcho-Syndicalist Politics in Nueva Australia6 Yeats’s Dancers Dancing7 Joyce’s Choreographies of Gesture8 Choreographies of Social PerformanceConclusionWorks CitedIndex