James Joyce's Mandala
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James Joyce's Mandala

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James Joyce's Mandala

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000617740
Edition
1
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Textual Note
  10. 1 Joyce and the Infinite Bardo
  11. 2 Mandalas and the Spiritual Refugee
  12. 3 Dubliners and the Samsaric Wheel
  13. 4 Psychic Architecture Part I
  14. 5 Psychic Architecture Part II
  15. 6 Mystic or Morbid?
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index