كليدواژه :
زيبايي شناسي , زيبايي شناسي عرفاني هنر , رشد روحي , آفرينش هنري , هنرمند عارف , كمال الهي
چكيده لاتين :
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. Based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly Aquinasʹs mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like Bruno and Saint Augustine, Joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. He, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, and becomes a mystic artist. This article analyses Joyceʹs novel from the perspective of his mystical aesthetics and shows the stages of the artistʹs spiritual perfection up to Divine perfection, which according to Joyce is the final stage of spiritual development necessary for being an artist. These stages are represented in spiritual developments of a young artist, Stephen Dedalus, in five chapters of the novel in which he achieves the position of mystical epiphany and artistic creativity. Finally, the article concludes that the artistʹs aesthetics, passing through stages of ʹintegritasʹ, ʹconsonentiaʹ, and ʹclaritasʹ, achieves its ultimate perfection and, thus, he becomes a mystic artist.
Keywords: Aesthetics, Mystical Aesthetics of Art, Spiritual Development, Artistic Creativity, Divine Perfection, Mystic artist.
