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ISBN:
9781472543073
Content:
Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Joyce and the church according to the critics -- 2. The Holy Roman Apostolic Church -- 3. Heresy, Schisma and Dissent -- 4. Joyce's own crisis of belief -- 5. Loss of religion in retrospect: from Epiphanies to Exiles -- 6. You behold in me a horrible example of freethought -- 7. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state -- 8. After Ulysses -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"From the very beginning James Joyce's readers have considered him as a Catholic or an anti-Catholic writer, and in recent years the tendency has been to recuperate him for an alternative and decidedly liberal form of Catholicism. However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up. As a result, Geert Lernout argues that it is misleading to divorce his work from that particular context, which was so important to his decision to become a writer in the first place. Arguing that Joyce's unbelief is critical for a fuller understanding of his work, Lernout takes his title from Ulysses, "I believe, O Lord, help my unbelief. That is, help me to believe or help me to unbelieve?", itself a quote from Mark 9: 24. This incisive study will be of interest to all readers of Joyce and to anyone interested in the relationship between religion and literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-229) and index
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Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Joyce, James 1882-1941
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Religion
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Religion
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Glaube
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DOI:
10.5040/9781472543073
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