« I wrote my name in pencil on the backside of the Venus of Praxiteles » : sculpture et émotion esthétique chez Joyce

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Au cinquième chapitre du Portrait, Stephen a une longue discussion avec son ami Lynch, au cours de laquelle il s’efforce de lui expliquer en quoi consiste l’émotion esthétique : The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion (I use the gene..

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