LEADER 04066oam 22006374a 450 001 9910552784703321 005 20210915035852.0 010 $a0-8142-7318-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000566455 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266241 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12470109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266241 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11243969 035 $a(PQKB)10736117 035 $a(OCoLC)885128054 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35522 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000566455 100 $a20140430d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConspicuous Bodies$eProvincial Belief and the Making of Joyce and Rushdie /$fJean Kane 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aColumbus$cOhio State University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aLiterature, religion, and postsecular studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8142-1260-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"This monograph, the first to link James Joyce and Salman Rushdie, asserts that religion in the works of these authors figures prominently and critically, although it is territory seldom trod by other literary scholars. To advance her argument, Kane demonstrates how each author, initially received as cosmopolitan, took pains to establish his public image by establishing his affiliation with an Irish Catholic or and Indian muslim identity. at the same time, the authors' fiction increasingly exploited spiritual techniques, manipulating their insider-outsider positions through liberal Christian protocols from which the anthropological category 'religion' itself emerged"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"In Conspicuous Bodies: Provincial Belief and the Making of Joyce and Rushdie, Jean Kane re-examines the literature of James Joyce and Salman Rushdie from a post-secularist perspective, arguing that their respective religions hold critical importance in their works. Though Joyce and Rushdie were initially received as cosmopolitans, both authors subsequently reframed their public images and aligned themselves instead with a provincial religious identity, which emphasized the interconnections between religious devotion and embodiment. At the same time, both Joyce and Rushdie managed to resist the doctrinal content of their religions. Conspicuous Bodies presents Joyce as a founder and Rushdie as an inheritor of a distinctive discourse of belief about the importance of physical bodies and knowledge in religious practice. In doing so, it moves the reception of Joyce and Rushdie away from what previous critics have emphasized-away from questions of aesthetics and from a narrow understanding of belief-and instead questions the assumption that belief should be segregated from matters of physicality and knowledge. Kane reintroduces the concept of spiritual embodiment in order to expand our understanding of what counts as spiritual agency in non-western and minority literatures"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aRELIGION / General$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aHuman body$xReligious aspects 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aFaith in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRELIGION / General. 615 0$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aHuman body$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aFaith in literature. 676 $a823/.912 686 $aLIT004120$aREL000000$2bisacsh 700 $aKane$b Jean$f1955-$01214828 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552784703321 996 $aConspicuous Bodies$92805002 997 $aUNINA