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James Joyce’s Mandala

Author : Colm O’Shea

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 22,38 MB

Release : 2022-07-29

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1000617742

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The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical sophistication, making manifest a geometry with layers of esoteric meaning for both the mandala artist and the initiated spectator. James Joyce’s Mandala outlines and explains this iconic sacred geometry, and assesses to what extent Joyce’s works of literature, in particular Finnegans Wake, can be understood as mandalic constructs. Using exam-ples from Dubliners to the Wake, we see how fundamental to Joyce’s fiction is the issue of spiritual paralysis (a problem the mandala attempts to dissolve) and also how fascinated he was by geometric imagery and symmetry, the technical devices employed in mandala construction. This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala. Never discounting the richness of Joyce’s genius, it uses his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.



James Joyce's Mandala

Author : COLM. O'SHEA

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 13,23 MB

Release : 2022-07-29

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ISBN : 9781032076775

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This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce's work with the mythic structure of the mandala, using his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.



Joyce's Kaleidoscope

Author : Philip Kitcher

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 49,19 MB

Release : 2009-04-03

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0199886504

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James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently based on an immense learning that few can share, make it appear impenetrable. Joyce's Kaleidoscope attempts to dissolve the darkness and to invite lovers of literature to engage with Finnegans Wake. Philip Kitcher proposes that the Wake has at its core an age-old philosophical question, "What makes a life worth living?", and that Joyce explores that question from the perspective of someone who feels that a long life is now ending. So the complex dream language is a way of investigating issues that are hard to face directly; the reader is invited to struggle with the novel's aging dreamer who seeks reassurance about the worth of what he has done and been. Joyce finds his way to reassurance. The sweeping music and the high comedy of Finnegans Wake celebrate the ordinary doings of ordinary people. With great humanity and a distinctive brand of humanism, Joyce points us to the things that matter in our lives. His final novel is a festival of life itself. From this perspective, the supposedly opaque, or nonsensical, language opens up as a rich source for the reader's reflections: though readers won't all approach it the same way, or with the same set of references, there is meaning in it for everyone. Kitcher's detailed study of the entire text brings out its musical resonances and its musical structures. It analyzes the novel overall while bringing deep insight to the reading of key individual passages. This engaging guide will aid readers not just to make sense of the novel, but to relish the remarkable accomplishment of Joyce's least appreciated work.





James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake

Author : Donald Phillip Verene

Publisher : Northwestern University Press

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 24,32 MB

Release : 2016-05-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0810133334

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James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake explores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Very few Joyce critics know enough about these philosophers and therefore often miss their influence on Joyce's great work. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations. We as philosophical readers of the Wake go along with them to meet everybody and in so doing are bound "to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy" of our souls the "uncreated conscience" of humankind. Verene builds his study on the basis of years of teaching Finnegans Wake side by side with Cusanus, Bruno, and Vico, and his book will serve as a guide to readers of Joyce's novel.



Surreal Beckett

Author : Alan Warren Friedman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 27,23 MB

Release : 2017-08-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1351592491

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Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during his early Paris days (1928 - late 1930s) that James Knowlson dubbed them his "Joyce years." But Surrealism and Surrealists rivaled Joyce for Beckett’s early and continuing attention, if not affection, so that Raymond Federman called 1929-45 Beckett’s "surrealist period." Considering both claims, this volume delves deeper into each argument by obscuring the boundaries between theses differentiating studies. These received wisdoms largely maintain that Beckett’s Joycean connection and influence developed a negative impact in his early works, and that Beckett only found his voice when he broke the connection after Joyce’s death. Beckett came to accept his own inner darkness as his subject matter, writing in French and using a first-person narrative voice in his fiction and competing personal voices in his plays. Critics have mainly viewed Beckett’s Surrealist connections as roughly co-terminus with Joycean ones, and ultimately of little enduring consequence. Surreal Beckett argues that both early influences went much deeper for Beckett as he made his own unique way forward, transforming them, particularly Surrealist ones, into resources that he drew upon his entire career. Ultimately, Beckett endowed his characters with resources sufficient to transcend limitations their surreal circumstances imposed upon them.



Decolonizing Modernism

Author : Jose Luis Venegas

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 50,40 MB

Release : 2017-07-05

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1351570013

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James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) has been recognized as a central model for the Spanish American 'New Narrative'. Joyce's linguistic and technical influence became the unequivocal sign that literature in Spanish America had definitively abandoned narrow regionalist concerns and entered a global literary canon. In this bold and wide-ranging study, Jose Luis Venegas rethinks this evolutionary conception of literary history by focusing on the connection between cultural specificity and literary innovation. He argues that the intertextual dialogue between James Joyce and prominent authors such as Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar, Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Mexican Fernando del Paso, reveals the anti-colonial value of modernist form. Venegas explores the historical similarities between Joyce's Ireland during the 1920s and Spanish America between the 1940s and 70s to challenge depoliticized interpretations of modernist aesthetics and propose unsuspected connections between formal experimentation and the cultural transformations demanded by decolonizing societies. Jose Luis Venegas is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.



Uses of Comparative Mythology

Author : Kenneth L. Golden

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 22,95 MB

Release : 2021-04-14

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317943198

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This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.



NET/JRF English Previous Year Solved Papers 2007-2019 (34 Papers Included)

Author : Mocktime Publication

Publisher : by Mocktime Publication

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 15,10 MB

Release :

Category : Study Aids

ISBN :

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UGC NTA NET/JRF English Previous Year Solved Papers 2007-2019 (34 Papers Included) Table of Contents 1. NET/JRF Exam, June-2019 Subject English Paper-II 2. NET/JRF Exam, December-2018 Subject English Paper-II 3. NET/JRF Exam, July-2018 Subject English Paper-II 4. NET/JRF Exam, November-2017 Subject English Paper-II 5. NET/JRF Exam, November-2017 Subject English Paper-III 6. NET/JRF Exam, January-2017 Subject English Paper-II 7. NET/JRF Exam, January-2017 Subject English Paper-III 8. NET/JRF Exam, July-2016 Subject English Paper-II 9. NET/JRF Exam, July-2016 Subject English Paper-III 10. NET/JRF Exam, December-2015 Subject English Paper-II 11. NET/JRF Exam, December-2015 Subject English Paper-III 12. NET/JRF Exam, June-2015 Subject English Paper-II 13. NET/JRF Exam, June-2015 Subject English Paper-III 14. NET/JRF Exam, December-2014 Subject English Paper-II 15. NET/JRF Exam, December-2014 Subject English Paper-III 16. NET/JRF Exam, June-2014 Subject English Paper-II 17. NET/JRF Exam, June-2014 Subject English Paper-III 18. NET/JRF Exam, December-2013 Subject English Paper-II 19. NET/JRF Exam, December-2013 Subject English Paper-III 20. NET/JRF Exam, June-2013 Subject English Paper-II 21. NET/JRF Exam, June-2013 Subject English Paper-III 22. NET/JRF Exam, December-2012 Subject English Paper-II 23. NET/JRF Exam, December-2012 Subject English Paper-III 24. NET/JRF Exam, June-2012 Subject English Paper-II 25. NET/JRF Exam, June-2012 Subject English Paper-III 26. NET/JRF Exam, December-2011 Subject English Paper-II 27. NET/JRF Exam, June-2011 Subject English Paper-II 28. NET/JRF Exam, December-2010 Subject English Paper-II 29. NET/JRF Exam, June-2010 Subject English Paper-II 30. NET/JRF Exam, December-2009 Subject English Paper-II 31. NET/JRF Exam, June-2009 Subject English Paper-II 32. NET/JRF Exam, December-2008 Subject English Paper-II 33. NET/JRF Exam, June-2008 Subject English Paper-II 34. NET/JRF Exam, December-2007 Subject English Paper-II Syllabus English NET JRF UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION NET BUREAU NET SYLLABUS Subject: English Code No. : 30 Unit –I : Drama Unit –II : Poetry Unit –III : Fiction, short story Unit –IV : Non-Fictional Prose NOTE: The first four units must also be tested through comprehension passages to assess critical reading, critical thinking and writing skills. These four units will cover all literatures in English. Unit –V : Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy. English in Use. Unit –VI : English in India: history, evolution and futures Unit –VII : Cultural Studies Unit –VIII : Literary Criticism Unit –IX : Literary Theory post World War II Unit –X : Research Methods and Materials in English



Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol.1

Author : Robert Aldrich

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 532 pages

File Size : 35,34 MB

Release : 2005-10-25

Category : History

ISBN : 113472215X

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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.