Monday, June 16, 2014

Lost and found …

… Anthony Burgess on James Joyce: the lost introduction - Book News | Literature & Book Reviews & Headlines |The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 14, 2014. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If he had borrowed the doctrine of purgation from Aristotle’s Poetics he had taken from the magisterial Aquinas the bones of a theory of aesthetics that, in the novelStephen Hero and its reworking as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, he fleshes out with a system of his own. And from the church itself he took the term epiphany, which stands for the feast of the visitation of the Magi but which he restored to its secular meaning of a “showing forth”.

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