03262nam 22006371 450 991097199600332120121024150033.0978661320247597814725430731472543076978128320247312832024769781441106407144110640510.5040/9781472543073(CKB)2550000001252498(EBL)742919(SSID)ssj0000523120(PQKBManifestationID)12222987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523120(PQKBWorkID)10540233(PQKB)11154725(MiAaPQ)EBC742919(OCoLC)741691064(UtOrBLW)bpp09256729(UtOrBLW)BP9781472543073BC(Perlego)805297(EXLCZ)99255000000125249820140929d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHelp my unbelief James Joyce and religion /Geert LernoutLondon ;New York :Continuum,2010.1 online resource (248 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781441194749 1441194746 9781441131089 1441131086 Includes bibliographical references (pages [222]-229) and index.Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Joyce and the church according to the critics -- 2. The Holy Roman Apostolic Church -- 3. Heresy, Schisma and Dissent -- 4. Joyce's own crisis of belief -- 5. Loss of religion in retrospect: from Epiphanies to Exiles -- 6. You behold in me a horrible example of freethought -- 7. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state -- 8. After Ulysses -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index."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 However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Faith in literatureLiterary studies: generalFaith in literature.823.912Lernout Geert1954-292917UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910971996003321Help my unbelief4337907UNINA