Modernism and Religion : Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy / Jamie Callison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callison, Jamie, 1985- Author.

Series:

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture Series

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Modernism (Christian theology).

Modernism (Literature).

Religion and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : 12 B/W illustrations 12 black & white illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores the transformation of religious orthodoxy in the age of modernismProvides a historical and theoretically informed account of mysticism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Details the significance of a range of religious practices to modernism, including communal worship, conversion, and retreat.Reads modernism through the lens of recent postsecular theory.Offers close readings of major works by David Jones, T. S. Eliot, and H.D., including the first extended discussion of Jones's recently published The Grail Mass, informed by extensive work in the personal archives and libraries of individual authors.Outlines an expanded understanding of religious poetry.Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian sociology, and philosophical personalism, which are explored here in relation to the work of David Jones, T. S. Eliot, and H.D., represented a strategic attempt on the part of diverse religious authorities to meet the challenge posed by new mysticism. Orthodoxy was itself made new in ways that resisted the secular demand that religion remain a private undertaking. Modernism and Religion presents the mechanical form and clashing registers of long poems by each of the aforementioned writers as an alternative to epiphanic modernism. Their wavering orthodoxy brings matters from which the secular had previously separated religion back once more into its purview.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Series Editors' Preface

Introduction: Wavering Orthodoxy

1 Mass Distraction: Between Rites and Rights in David Jones

2 Spiritual Pathology: Diagnosing T. S. Eliot's Unconscious Christianity

3 Reversion Therapy: The Personalism of H.D.'s Return to Religion

4 Silent Protest: The Retreat Movement, 1920-45

Conclusion: The Distraction of Religious Poetry

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9781474457255

1474457258

9781474457248

147445724X

OCLC:

1402063229