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

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. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce's work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic tradition, its philosophy and important figures, like Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Absher, Absher Tom
• Assisted by: Edward T. Larkin (Editor), Virginia L. Lewis (Editor), Hugo Walter (Editor), Larkin Edward T. (Editor of the series), Lewis Virginia L. (Editor of the series), Hugo Walter (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781433139796
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-3979-6
• No. of pages: 126
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 13 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature; Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Renaissance, LIFE, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Virginia, Joyce, Edward, Hugo, WALTER, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Magus, Lewis, James, Celebrating, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, sacred, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Ordinary, Larkin, Absher