Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life; James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus

ISBN-13: 9781433139796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 126 str.

Walter, Hugo

Opis

This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Preface - Introduction: « A Shout in the Street » - Setting the Terms - Background - The Magus - Dubliners - Portrait - Ulysses: Background Materials - Ulysses: The Text - Finnegans Wake - Index.

O autorze

Tom Absher received his Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught literature and creative writing in several small liberal arts colleges for forty years. His other published works include Men and the Goddess, as well as several collections of poetry.