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- Title
Joyce Among the Brothers.
- Authors
Mahon, John W.
- Abstract
Noting writer James Joyce's famous remark that "You allude to me as a Catholic; you ought to allude to me as a Jesuit," writer Kevin Sullivan writes in the book Joyce Among the Jesuits that Joyce "received the whole of his formal education from the Jesuits. Only once during these fourteen years was his study with them interrupted, and during this period, from the beginning of the year 1892 to April, 1893, he seems not to have attended any school whatever." It is an abundantly documented commonplace of Joyce criticism that the Society of Jesus played a major role in his life and works. On the other hand, it has long been assumed, from one reference in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, that the Christian Brothers figured little in Joyce's life and that, in fact, his admiration for his Jesuit teachers was complemented by a contempt for the Brothers who educated many of his contemporaries. Compared to the Society of Jesus, the Congregation of Christian Brothers did not play a major role in the life and works of James Joyce.
- Subjects
BROTHERS (Religious); JESUITS; JOYCE, James, 1882-1941; JOYCE Among the Jesuits (Book); PORTRAIT of the Artist As a Young Man, A (Book : Joyce); RELIGIOUS societies; MONASTICISM &; religious orders
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2004, Vol 53, Issue 3, p349
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833310405300304