Absher Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4331-4174-4
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 134, 152 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Absher, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.