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Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word (New Directions in Religion and Literature)

By Gregory Erickson

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
ISBN
9781350212756, 9781350212763, 9781350212770, 135021275X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3097556 bytes)
Pages
240\241
Time added
2023-11-30 03:57:46

Description

Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce – particularly Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake – as a prism to explore how the history of Christian heresy remains part of how we read, write, and think about books today. Erickson argues that the study of classical, medieval, and modern debates over heresy and orthodoxy provide new ways of understanding modernist literature and literary theory. Using Joyce's works as a springboard to explore different perspectives and intersections of 20th century literature and the modern literary and religious imagination, this book gives us new insights into how our modern and “secular” reading practices unintentionally reflect how we understand our religious histories.

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