Blasphemous Modernism - The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh

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.

List of contents

• Introduction: "First-Rate Blasphemy"


• 1. "For This is My Body": James Joyce's Unholy Office


• 2. Blasphemy and the New Woman: Mina Loy's Profane Communions


• 3. Blasphemy and the New Negro: Black Christs,"Livid Tongues"


• 4. Go Down, Djuna: The Art of "Transcendence Downward"


• Conclusion: To Be as Gods


• Bibliography

About the author

Steve Pinkerton is a Lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University.

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.

Additional text

At last! An intuitive and probing analysis of blasphemy and modernist writers, skillfully accomplished by exploring the real-world context of their works. This penetrating and lucid book pries apart the fundamental paradox of blasphemy within the modernist epoch

Product details

• Authors: Steve Pinkerton, Steve (Full-Time Lecturer Pinkerton, Pinkerton Steve
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780197523254
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752325-4
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu; MODERNIST LITERATURE AND CULTURE SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, RELIGION / Blasphemy, Heresy & Apostasy, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy