Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.