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The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce

by Umberto Eco, Ellen Esrock · 1966

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Eco discusses how Joyce's fiction was suffused by its author's reading of St Thomas Aquinas, Giordano Bruno, and Nicola De Cusa.

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