James Joyce and the Jesuits

James Joyce and the Jesuits
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781108495295
ISBN-13 : 110849529X
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis James Joyce and the Jesuits by : Michael Mayo

Download or read book James Joyce and the Jesuits written by Michael Mayo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh close readings and psychoanalytic theory demonstrate how Joyce turned practices he learned from the Jesuits into challenges for readers.

James Joyce and the Jesuits

James Joyce and the Jesuits
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781108850971
ISBN-13 : 1108850979
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis James Joyce and the Jesuits by : Michael Mayo

Download or read book James Joyce and the Jesuits written by Michael Mayo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce was educated almost exclusively by the Jesuits; this education and these priests make their appearance across Joyce's oeuvre. This dynamic has never been properly explicated or rigorously explored. Using Joyce's religious education and psychoanalytic theories of depression and paranoia, this book opens radical new possibilities for reading Joyce's fiction. It takes readers through some of the canon's most well-read texts and produces bold, fresh new readings. By placing these readings in light of Jesuit religious practice - in particular, the Spiritual Exercises all Jesuit priests and many students undergo - the book shows how Joyce's deepest concerns about truth, literature, and love were shaped by these religious practices and texts. Joyce worked out his answers to these questions in his own texts, largely by forcing his readers to encounter, and perhaps answer, those questions themselves. Reading Joyce is a challenge not only in terms of interpretation but of experience - the confusion, boredom, and even paranoia readers feel when making their way through these texts.

Joyce Among the Jesuits

Joyce Among the Jesuits
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Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press, 1958, 1967 printing.
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:59087222
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Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Joyce Among the Jesuits by : Kevin Sullivan

Download or read book Joyce Among the Jesuits written by Kevin Sullivan and published by New York : Columbia University Press, 1958, 1967 printing.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Jesuits

The First Jesuits
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 067430313X
ISBN-13 : 9780674303133
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The First Jesuits by : John W. O'Malley

Download or read book The First Jesuits written by John W. O'Malley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An arrestingly new picture of the early Jesuits and the world in which they lived. ...." [from back cover]

James Joyce's Schooldays

James Joyce's Schooldays
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Total Pages : 179
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ISBN-10 : 7171122689
ISBN-13 : 9787171122687
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Book Synopsis James Joyce's Schooldays by : Bruce Bradley

Download or read book James Joyce's Schooldays written by Bruce Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Secret Agents

God's Secret Agents
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 463
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ISBN-10 : 9780060542276
ISBN-13 : 0060542276
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis God's Secret Agents by : Alice Hogge

Download or read book God's Secret Agents written by Alice Hogge and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of the Gunpowder Plotters -- a small group of terrorists who famously tried to destroy the Houses of Parliament -- for the Jesuits were accused of having designed "that most horrid and hellish conspiracy." In an unusual turn of events, the future of every Catholic they had hoped to save would soon come to depend on the silence of one Oxford carpenter, a man being tortured in the Tower of London for building priest holes, those bunkers in which the Catholic clergy hid from English authorities. Using contemporary documents, Alice Hogge's brilliant new book pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between priests and government spies, as Queen Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the state, and English Catholics fought to defend their souls. It follows the priests -- God's Secret Agents -- from their schooling on the Continent, through their perilous return journeys and their lonely lives in hiding, to the scaffold, where a gruesome death awaited them. To their government they were traitors; to their fellow Catholics they were glorious martyrs. It was a distinction that the Gunpowder Plot would put to the test. Ultimately God's Secret Agents is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.

Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy

Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780674261129
ISBN-13 : 0674261127
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy by : Camilla Russell

Download or read book Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy written by Camilla Russell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves. The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become Jesuits and pursue vocations in religious service, teaching, and missions. Drawing on scores of unpublished biographical documents housed at the Roman Jesuit Archive, Camilla Russell illuminates the lives of those who joined the Society, building together a religious and cultural presence that remains influential the world over. Tracing Jesuit life from the Italian provinces to distant missions, Russell sheds new light on the impact and inner workings of the Society. The documentary record reveals a textual network among individual members, inspired by Ignatius of LoyolaÕs Spiritual Exercises. The early Jesuits took stock of both quotidian and spiritual experiences in their own records, which reflect a community where the worldly and divine overlapped. Echoing the SocietyÕs foundational writings, members believed that each JesuitÕs personal strengths and inclinations offered a unique contribution to the wholeÑan attitude that helps explain the SocietyÕs widespread appeal from its first days. Focusing on the JesuitsÕ own words, Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy offers a new lens on the history of spirituality, identity, and global exchange in the Renaissance. What emerges is a kind of genetic codeÑa thread connecting the key Jesuit works to the first generations of Jesuits and the Society of Jesus as it exists today.