A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Far from turning his back on it he [Joyce] invaded it and took it up into the analogical drama of his art. For only the artist of analogical vision can freely adopt actual existence to the exigencies of art. But the traditional errors of men become for the analogical artist precious matter for his structures even as Gilson has used historical error in philosophy to build a path to truth.
Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters” The McAuley Lectures: Christian Humanism in Letters, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford Connecticut, (1954), p 65, reprinted in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 171.
Year: 1954
Chapter: Joyce, James
Compiled by William Kuhns
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