Dear List members
over the last ten years, from time to time, I have mentioned aspects of my PhD work on literary affects (Kenosis, Katharsis, Kiarosis) and the relations I see between these and design - mostly the lyric relations formed with objects (Kenosis).
To anyone interested, my PhD is now on line - details are below.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28951
Kenosis, Katharsis, Kairosis: A Theory of Literary Affects
Author/Creator
Russell, Keith
Institution
University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science and Information Technology, School of Design, Communication and IT
Description
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Description
This thesis explores theoretical aspects of the affective dimension of literature. Beginning with Aristotle's tying of katharsis to the drama, the pattern of affective relations is completed through the establishing of terms for each of the three broad traditional genres. These relations can be expressed in the ratio: as katharsis is to the genre of the dramatic so kenosis is to the genre of the lyric so kairosis is to the genre of the epic. Within each of these affective relations, further relations are determined for the identity structures within each genre. In defining these identity structures, the philosophical, theological, psychological and literary aspects of katharsis, kenosis and kairosis are explored. Of particular use in mapping these identity structures and literary affects were the philosophical theories of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, and Wittgenstein; the theological views of D.G. Dawe, John Macquarrie, Charles Pickstone, and Ernest F. Scott; the psychological theories of C.J. Jung, Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva; the literary theories of Mikel Dufrenne, Stanley Fish, Toshihiko and Toyo Izutsu, Hans Robert Jauss, W.R. Johnson, Frank Kermode, William Elford Rogers, and D.T. Suzuki; and the literary works of Homer, Shakespeare, George Herbert, S.T. Coleridge, Charles Baudelaire, Wallace Stevens, and James K. Baxter. Taking up Aristotle's project to grant cognitive value to the experience of art, this thesis argues for the centrality of identity structures within the dimension of the affective. The thesis further determines that literature's affective dimension is the domain within which aesthetic identity is established. Such imaginative identity structures amount to a cultural catalogue of identity possibilities. As the keepers of this catalogue, the three interpretive genres amount to a body of affective knowledge that is its own dimension.
Relation
Australasian Digital Thesis
Date
1990
Keyword
kenosis
Keyword
catharsis
Keyword
kairosis
Keyword
literary affects
Keyword
aesthetics
Keyword
poetics
Keyword
negative theology
Keyword
James K Baxter
Keyword
literary theory
Resource Type
thesis
Rights
Copyright 1990 Keith Russell
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28951
Language
eng
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