The Jesuits taught Joyce that Euclid’s influence extended beyond angles, legs, and cosines. According to Wertmeimmer’s Gestalt, Euclidean geometry creates a search for consistency (Miller 248). Rene Descartes, also Jesuit educated, balked against Aristotelian logic and set geometry on a course toward the concrete application of simple principles. Descartes’ influence may have been the reasonContinue reading “(M) Joyce’s Modernism: The Gnomon of Joyce’s Dubliners”
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(D) about “Grace”: A Comparison of the Workings of Grace in James Joyce and Flannery O’Connor
Mention in the diary of Stanislaus Joyce pins the attendance of John S. Joyce at a Gardiner Street retreat at Saint Francis on September 29, 1904. If a “gentleman” were to suffer a moral slip, he might tumble headfirst into the muck of Dublin’s Inferno. He might bite off a piece of his necessary tea-tasting tongueContinue reading “(D) about “Grace”: A Comparison of the Workings of Grace in James Joyce and Flannery O’Connor”
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