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Blasphemous modernism : the 20th-century word made flesh / Steven Pinkerton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinkerton, Steven, author.
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture.
- Modernist Literature & Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 'Blasphemous Modernism' argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers forged the literature of modernism from the idiom of blasphemy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "First-rate blasphemy"
- "For this is my body": James Joyce's unholy office
- Blasphemy and the new woman: Mina Loy's profane communions
- Blasphemy and the new negro: Black Christs, "livid tongues"
- Go down, Djuna: the art of "transcendence downward"
- Conclusion: To be as gods.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-065144-X
- 0-19-062757-3
- 0-19-062758-1
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