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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Anthony Julius
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Silence: family values
- 2 Silence: Jesuit years – Clongowes and Belvedere
- 3 Silence: university years – the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics
- 4 Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return
- 5 Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews
- 6 Cunning: Jews and the Continent – texts and subtexts
- 7 Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two – Joyce and Italo Svevo
- 8 Ulysses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
2 - Silence: Jesuit years – Clongowes and Belvedere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Anthony Julius
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Silence: family values
- 2 Silence: Jesuit years – Clongowes and Belvedere
- 3 Silence: university years – the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics
- 4 Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return
- 5 Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews
- 6 Cunning: Jews and the Continent – texts and subtexts
- 7 Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two – Joyce and Italo Svevo
- 8 Ulysses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Except for his year with the Christian Brothers in 1892, Joyce's entire formal education was under the Jesuits. As an adult, he often acknowledged the debt he owed to the Society's discipline, and continued to call his thought patterns “Jesuit,” claiming the Order taught him how to “arrange things in such a way that they become easy to survey and judge.” Oliver Gogarty characterized Joyce as an “inverted Jesuit” who failed to relinquish the Society's obsession with preciseness and pedantry. Joyce learned Catholic doctrine in its most detailed form from the Jesuits, and so found a sophisticated reinforcement there for “the Jew” as the betrayer of Jesus. But Joyce's education emphasized as well the virtue of Old Testament patriarchs as a crucial element of Bible typology. During his years at Belvedere, Joyce also read Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, which provided him with a new, secular representation of “the Jew.” Undermining that image, however, were Jesuit arguments he encountered that connected the Church's long-running anti-Masonry campaign with a renewed animus against the Jews.
During the eighteenth century, the Society had lost its struggle for influence in Ireland with the suppression of the world-wide Order by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. Yet throughout the next century it grew to become a formidable force of Irish Catholic education.
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- James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish IdentityCulture, Biography, and 'the Jew' in Modernist Europe, pp. 41 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996