Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word

Author:   Gregory Erickson (The Gallatin School, USA) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK) ,  Mark Knight
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350212794


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 September 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word


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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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Author:   Gregory Erickson (The Gallatin School, USA) ,  Emma Mason (University of Warwick UK) ,  Mark Knight
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350212794


ISBN 10:   1350212792
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: Why Joyce? Why Heresy? Why Now? Introduction: Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Imagination Chapter 1: Five Moments of Schism: A Selective History of Heresy Chapter 2: Reversals of History: From the First Heretics to James Joyce and Back Again Chapter 3: Arius, Heretical Christology, and the Anxiety of Artistic Creation Chapter 4: Ulysses, Medieval Heresy, and the Eucharist: Fragmented Narratives of Doubt Chapter 5: Alternative Reformations: The Word, Iconoclasm, and Finnegans Wake Chapter 6: Heretical Reading Strategies: The Book of Mormon and Finnegans Wake Epilogue: Writing and the Practice of Heresy: From Wake Reading Groups to Church Graffiti

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Gregory Erickson is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, USA. He is co-editor of Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art (2018), co-author of Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred (2008), and author of The Absence of God in Modernist Literature (2007).

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