Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Prologue xi
5. PART 1: INTRODUCTION
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Joyce and Bruno 8
8. 2. Material Universe and Spiritual Activity 20
9. 3. The Round of Nature 38
10. 4. Roads Parallel and Roads Contrary 50
11. 5. Transformations of the Creator 61
12. 6. The Comic Vision and the Grotesque 77
13. PART 2: INTRODUCTION
14. Introduction 95
15. 7. Conditioned Ego and Observing Self 102
16. 8. The Image of the Artist: Destruction, Perversion, Creation 116
17. 9. Comedy in'Circe' 137
18. 10. The Grotesque in 'Circe' 153
19. 11. 'Ithaca': Reduction and Sublimation 167
20. 12. A Great Joker at the Universe 186
21. Notes 199
22. Index 221