James Joyce's Painful Case [electronic resource] /
Owens, Cóilín.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
Owens argues that the main character, James Duffy, is a 'spoiled priest', emotionally arrested by his guilt at having rejected the call to the priesthood. Duffy's intellectual life thereafter progresses through German idealism to eventual nihilism. The contrast of nihilist thought and Christian belief is Owens's main focus, and he demonstrates how this dichotomy is evident at various points in the life of James Duffy.
Owens argues that the main character, James Duffy, is a 'spoiled priest', emotionally arrested by his guilt at having rejected the call to the priesthood. Duffy's intellectual life thereafter progresses through German idealism to eventual nihilism. The contrast of nihilist thought and Christian belief is Owens's main focus, and he demonstrates how this dichotomy is evident at various points in the life of James Duffy.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.