God-like Artistry of James Joyce's Ulysses
...etaphor, for example, is explained in Aristotle’s Poetics as “a transfer of meaning between compared entities” (Newman, 3) that works to achieve clarity of a subject. Moreover, Aristotle shows how the knowledge that artists impart in their art serves to maintain internal order of the psyche. On this point, he shows how the experience of viewing a tragic drama works to purge the psyche of pent up emotions, by way of catharsis (3). More recently, the earlier 20th century social theorist, Hebert Marcuse, states that the function of the artist is to express the negative and oppositional feelings of society as a whole (Wolff, 239). Marcuse theorizes that by fulfilling this role, artists initiate “social revolution” (239). However, today, the role of the artist is somewhat less important. People no longer look to the poets, the painters, the dramatists, or the novelists in their search for truth or revolutionary ideas. Rather, they look to the hard scientific fact...