James Joyce's Mandala

This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce's work with the mythic structure of the mandala, using his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.

Colm O'Shea is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University's Expository Writing Program. He received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where he wrote his dissertation on James Joyce and sacred geom-etry, and his MFA from Oxford University with a dual focus on poetry and screenwriting. His work has been published in Cagibi, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Film Philosophy, among other publications, and his poetry has been anthologized in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century and Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing.

Chapter 1: Joyce and the Infinite Bardo Chapter 2: Mandalas and the Spiritual Refugee Chapter 3: Dubliners and the Samsaric Wheel Chapter 4: Psychic Architecture I Chapter 5: Psychic Architecture II Chapter 6: Mystic or Morbid?