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Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to the specific ways this rhetoric operates in, and as, literary modernism. United by a shared commitment to "the word made flesh," writers such as James Joyce, Mina Loy, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Djuna Barnes made blasphemy a key component of their modernist practice, profaning the very scriptures and sacraments that fueled their art. In doing so they belied T. S. Eliot's verdict that the forces of secularization had rendered blasphemy obsolete in an increasingly godless century ("a world in which blasphemy is impossible"); their poems and fictions reveal how forcefully religion endured as a cultural force after the Death of God. More, their transgressions spotlight a politics of religion that has seldom engaged the attention of modernist studies. <em>Blasphemy</em> respects no division of church and state, and neither do the writers who wield it to profane all manner of coercive dogmas--including ecclesiastical as we

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Author

Steve Pinkerton

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190651442

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction