The artist as universal mind: Berkeley's influence on Charles Johnson. (Irish bishop-philosopher-writer's influence on another author)

From: African American Review | Date: December 22, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Author Charles Johnson's text of short stories 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' reflects the influence of the Irish Bishop George Berkeley's metaphysics. The author employs Berkeley's views in the stories 'Menagerie' and 'China,' which both reflect the opposition between the artist and commercialism using the Bishop as an analogy. Johnson advances a view of art as a supreme human endeavor and the artist as a Divine Creator and the origin of a shared world.

Charles Johnson's volume of short stories The Sorcerer's Apprentice opposes the artist's imaginative world to a naive realism that reduces ...

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