{"product_id":"help-my-unbelief-geert-lernout-9781441131089","title":"Help My Unbelief: James Joyce and Religion","description":"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 However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geert Lernout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441131086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441131089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010","brand":"Geert Lernout","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935034507519,"sku":"9781441131089","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_412e5da4-a01f-40fe-b1c5-b86bec5e737f.jpg?v=1681417470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/help-my-unbelief-geert-lernout-9781441131089","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}