UID:
edocfu_9961565810802883
Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-80085-349-1
,
1-63804-025-7
Series Statement:
Liverpool scholarship online
Content:
'Religion' has become suspect in literary studies, often for good reason, as it has become associated with reactionary politics and outdated codified beliefs. The author demonstrates how three high modernist writers work to reform religious experience for an age dominated by the extremes of radical skepticism and dogmatic rigidity. He offers provocative readings of these well-studied writers.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2022.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Reforming Belief: Renewing Religious Feeling and Experience -- Introduction "What am I to believe?" -- 1 Eliot: "We had the experience but missed the meaning" -- 2 Stevens: "We reason of these things with later reason" -- Part II Reforming God: Modernist Encounters with the East -- Introduction Otto and the Pluralists -- 3 Eliot's Buddhized Christianity -- 4 Ulysses as Christianized Buddhist Epic -- 5 Stevens's Late Poems as Buddhist Meditation -- Part III Reforming Church: "Upon this rock I will build my Church" -- Introduction Still "Churchgoing" -- 6 Joyce: "It is in here that I must kill the priest and the king" -- 7 Eliot: "And the Church must be forever building, and always decaying, and always being restored" -- 8 Stevens: "And yet what good were yesterday's devotions?" -- Appendix: Reforming Jesus -- Notes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sicari, Stephen Modernist Reformations Liverpool : Clemson University Press,c2022 ISBN 9781638040248
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3828/9781638040248
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