Cycles of Awe Bibiography

(sorry this post is so late. I'm doing massive catch up after a long two weeks)

Working Thesis
People experience cycles of awe (similar to how characters experience the hero's journey [ps thank you +Greg for the comment about the heroic journey]) for two reasons: first, to return to personal sources of awe because of their psychology, as these sources provides for a spiritual enlightenment, comfort, or resolution; second, whether accidentally or purposefully, these cycles continue because people become stuck in an ever circling loop without ever reaching an enlightened, comforted, or resolved state.
Sources

1. Kurtz, Benjamin. Function and Development of the Marvellous in Literature. Charleston: University Press, 2009. Print.
Because awe is such a difficult thing to define, I think this is the most helpful in terms of explaining how wonder occurs, what the wonder-state feels like, and what the limitations are to experience wonder and not something overstimulating.

2. Keltner, Dacher and Jonathan Haidt. “Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion.” Cognition and Emotion. 17.2 (2003): 297-314.
This paper explores awe in terms of how its “stimulus is vast” and “it requires accommodation.” It explores awe in terms of different treatments such as awe in religion, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Awe extends to different parts of a person, and they propose methods of how to study awe in its many aspects.

3. Fuller, Robert. “Wonder and the Religious Sensibility: A Study in Religion and Emotion.” The Journal of Religion. 86.3 (July 2006): 364-384.
An interesting look at how wonder is evolutionary and how it is closely tied with emotions “that arise in the perception of something novel, unexpected, or inexplicable.” There are several emotions tied to wonder, but it is an "adaptational" emotion or event. This is real science behind what causes awe and why humans still experience it.

4. Nin, Anais. “The New Woman.” In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1976. Print.
This essay talks about the sources of faith and confidence. Nin talks about how it is possible "to turn brass into gold, hate into love, destruction into creation" because humans "need nourishment to sustain life of the spirit." A lot of the things she talks about here I think goes along with what motivates people to return to sources of awe. There is something in art or mystery or the sublime that fulfills us on a spiritual or psychological level. It goes beyond our scope of understanding just enough to also bring us back into ourselves. Nin says we do not escape to these places, but "we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones." Those seeking the healing awe can bring will go back to sources of awe to heal again or grow (Alice), where others may become stuck and unable to connect with awe or understand it enough to heal (Peter Pan).

5. Mandel, Jerome. "The Structure of 'Araby.'" Modern Language Studies. 15.4 (Autumn 1985): 48-54.
This article talks about how the boy in "Araby" follows a medieval romance paradigm where the hero goes through stages to win the lady's heart. Since I will be looking at the hero's journey and it's similarities/comparisons to the cycles of awe, this may be a helpful analysis to use in my examination of "Araby" and his experience with cycles of awe.

6. Nash, Mildred J. "Holden and Alice: Adolescent Travellers." The English Journal. 72.3 (Spring 1983): 30-31.
Though I won't be looking at Holden Caulfield in my paper, I do want to see Alice in terms of the hero's journey and its comparison to the cycles of awe. This article looks at Alice as an adolescent traveller, and the analysis will be helpful in terms of seeing Alice's journeys to Wonderland as a journey.

7. Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with A Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Print.
Though I do not plan on using everything discussed in this book, it will definitely help me understand the hero's journey and the steps and theory behind it. This website will also help read through this text without getting too caught up in the details.

8. Mullikan, Lauren. Curiouser and Curiouser. 2011. March 20 2014.
Here the website has curated lots of articles based on the story Alice in Wonderland. Several links have different interpretations of the story that will be helpful in my analysis of the psychology of Alice, as well as the journey she takes to Wonderland and what that means.

9 and 10. James Joyce community on Google+ and Children's Book Community on Google+
I want to use these communities to possibly discuss my ideas, but also ask these members if they know of any more avenues for my papers. I can also search through their posts to find more information about James Joyce as a writer, as well as watch for any analysis of children's literature.

11. Beirne, Gerard. The Irish Literary Times. 2013. March 27 2014.
This is a curated list of up to date information on Irish literature. There are a lot of "scoops" on James Joyce and Dubliners as a whole.

Next Steps: I think I have a lot of resources for my paper, including sites I have not included in this bibliography. I really need to pick out specifics from each source that will help me most. Also need to catch up on the rest of my posts, and dive into the paper. I've posted in the Google+ communities and will continue to search for other avenues to get social proof.