Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350212756)

Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce - particularly Ulyssesand 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.



Author: Gregory Erickson
ISBN-10: 135021275X
ISBN-13: 9781350212756
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d