1st Edition

James Joyce’s Mandala

By Colm O’Shea Copyright 2023
238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Chapter 1: Joyce and the Infinite Bardo

Chapter 2: Mandalas and the Spiritual Refugee

Chapter 3: Dubliners and the Samsaric Wheel

Chapter 4: Psychic Architecture I

Chapter 5: Psychic Architecture II

Chapter 6: Mystic or Morbid?

Biography

Colm O’Shea is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University’s Expository Writing Program. He received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where he wrote his dissertation on James Joyce and sacred geom-etry, and his MFA from Oxford University with a dual focus on poetry and screenwriting. His work has been published in Cagibi, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Film Philosophy, among other publications, and his poetry has been anthologized in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century and Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing.