Neither simple apostate nor obedient Christian, James Joyce developed a uniquely ambivalent attitude toward his Irish Catholic roots--one that became inscribed in his imagination and served as a constant aesthetic focus and symbolic source in his fiction. In this study, Beryl Schlossman traces the theological and liturgical echoes that resonate in Joyce's work, particularly in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake , and argues that the writer's special brand of Catholicism necessitates a double reading of the fiction. Confronting ...
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Neither simple apostate nor obedient Christian, James Joyce developed a uniquely ambivalent attitude toward his Irish Catholic roots--one that became inscribed in his imagination and served as a constant aesthetic focus and symbolic source in his fiction. In this study, Beryl Schlossman traces the theological and liturgical echoes that resonate in Joyce's work, particularly in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake , and argues that the writer's special brand of Catholicism necessitates a double reading of the fiction. Confronting the Catholic Word with Celtic wit, she suggests, Joyce's world is an interrelated blend of the sacred and the comic, the deeply religious and the obscene, the defiant, the blasphemous. Students, scholars, and readers of Joyce, modern or comparative literature, contemporary criticism, and theology will find this a comprehensive and convincing study that illuminates the themes, poetic language, and central paradox of Joyce's art.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xxvi, 243pp.
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243p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in near-fine condition. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is minutely rubbed, but fully intact. A study of the influence of Catholicism on the wiritngs of James Joyce.
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Very Good. [Association Copy, inscribed by author on title page. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Related ephemera included: a handwritten note signed by author, and an original poem signed by author. xxvi, 243 p., 22 cm. *Autographed by author. *
