Modernist reformations : poetry as theology in Eliot, Stevens, and Joyce / Stephen Sicari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sicari, Stephen, author.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

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

English poetry.

Religion in literature.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Religion.

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'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become suspect in literary studies, often for good reason, as it has become associated with reactionary politics and outdated codified beliefs.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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2022).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sicari, Stephen Modernist Reformations

ISBN:

9781800853492

1800853491

9781638040255

1638040257