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Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 978-0-8130-6733-9

著者・編者O'Rourke, Fran,
シリーズThe Florida James Joyce Series
出版社(University Press of Florida, US)
出版年月2022
ページ数320 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<L25-3407>

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A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce

In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge.

Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces Joyce's discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and personal aesthetic theory.

O'Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle which Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of Aquinas's aesthetic principles.

The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical underpinnings of Joyce's work.