![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While De Marco argues for Joyce’s use of The Corpus Hermeticum, we look instead to that second core Hermetic work, the Emerald or Smaragdine Tablet. More specifically, it contributes to Nick De Marco’s recent return to Hermeticism in Joyce, itself an expansion upon Tindall’s near isolated 1954 treatment ( 1). This paper does not set itself the task of extrapolating Joyce’s motives, satirical or serious, from textual evidence, but merely posits another aspect of the increasing web of mystical allusions that permeate Joyce’s works. An interest in the Rosicrucian stories of Yeats, for example, was variously conceived by prominent Joyceans as either especially revealing or as an aberration. Of the many fruitful avenues of interpretation explored at the recent James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century conference in Durham (2010), one of the more contentious was Joyce’s inheritance, or lack thereof, of the mystical bent that characterized many of his predecessors. ![]()
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