[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Li, Victor Paw Hoon","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2010-02-01T20:17:50Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2010-02-01T20:17:50Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"1975","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/19497","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"The purpose of this thesis is to show the interrelationship between David Jones's writings on aesthetics, his expressed concern over the threat technology presents to the practice of art, and the compositional problems of The Anathemata.\r\nDavid Jones's aesthetic concepts appear idiosyncratic and strange to many of us because we no longer understand the language of poiesis and signs in which he speaks. Hence the language of his aesthetics needs to be translated,\r\nhis aesthetic concepts defined. Accordingly, the first three chapters\r\nexplore Jones's writings on art and attempt to define and explain certain key terms in his aesthetic vocabulary, terms such as poiesis, sign, sacrament, anamnesis, 're-present,' materia poetica, and so on.\r\nThe fourth chapter investigates David Jones's contention that the arts are in a state of crisis in our technological epoch. The dominant utilitarian\r\nideology of our technocracy, Jones argues, threatens the 'extra-utile,' gratuitous nature of artistic activity. Consequently, he believes that a modern aesthetic must be based on anxiety. This chapter also discusses how Jones's aesthetic views presented in the first three chapters furnish at once a critique of modern technological trends and an aesthetic valid for our epoch.\r\nIn the fifth chapter, The Anathemata is examined in the context provided for it by the preceding chapters. In particular, this chapter examines the problems (especially of a structural nature) faced by David Jones in composing\r\na long poem like The Anathemata. It also argues that Jones successfully solves the problem of unity in The Anathemata by adopting a flexible structure\r\nwhich not only accommodates a multiplicity and variety of allusions, ideas, and themes, but, at the same time, manages to conjoin them into an ordered whole. Finally, the thesis concludes that the central principle which informs David Jones's writings is his belief in the interrelatedness of all things, a belief supported by his practice as an artist and his faith as a Catholic.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms_of_use.","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"The inward continuities : aesthetics, crisis and The anathemata of David Jones","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Arts - MA","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"English","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Arts, Faculty of","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"English, Department of","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]