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The Edinburgh companion to modernism, myth and religion / edited by Suzanne Hobson and Andrew Radford.

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"Until fairly recently, the 'Authorised Version' of cultural modernism stated that the secularising trends of liberal modernity -- and the resultant emphasis on irony, parody and dissolution in modernist artforms -- had pushed religion to the edges of early twentieth-century culture....

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Hobson, Suzanne (Editor), Radford, Andrew, 1972- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Series:Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > Religious aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Ezra Pound versus T.S. Eliot on Christianity, apocalypse and myth, 1934-1945 / Erik Tonning
  • Virginia Woolf and Christianity / Jane de Gay
  • H.D. and spirituality / Lara Vetter
  • D.H. Lawrence's dark god / Luke Ferretter
  • Harlem's Bible stories : Christianity and the new Negro movement / Steve Pinkerton
  • The Jewish East End and modernism / Alex Grafen
  • Troubled : Reverse theodicy in Ward, Eliot and Baldwin / Douglas Mao
  • Modernism, secular hope and the posthumous trace / David Sherman
  • C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and "word magic" : Rethinking the relation of language to myth / Leigh Wilson
  • Jean Toomer and the face of the real : Between sacred presence and disenchanting violence / Matthew Mutter
  • Modernism and political theology / Charles Andrews
  • Virginia Woolf's agnostic, visionary mysticism : Approaching and retreating from the sacred / Gabrielle McIntire
  • Modernism, abstraction and spirituality : Barbara Hepworth and Hilma af Klint / Lorraine Sim
  • Modernism and the hymn / Sean Pryor
  • William James, mysticism and the modernist epiphany / Graham H. Jensen
  • Modernist mythopoeia / Scott Freer
  • Yeats's sacred grove / Seán Hewitt
  • The modernist grail quest / Andrew Radford
  • The burial of the dead in Mann's The Magic Mountain / Pericles Lewis
  • The modernist afterlives of theosophy / Allan Kilner-Johnson
  • Rebecca West, modern spiritualism and the problem of other minds / Jennifer Spitzer
  • "What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder" : May Sinclair's philosophical idealism as surrogate religion / Rebecca Bowler
  • Sacred ground : Orthodoxy, poetry and religious change / Jamie Callison
  • Liminal spaces and spiritual practice in Naomi Mitchison, Keri Hulme and Lorna Goodison / Elizabeth Anderson
  • Finnegans Wake, modernist time machines and re-enchanted time / Gregory Erickson
  • Global seekers in The Quest : A case study of an occult periodical's worldly religion / Mimi Winick
  • "A miserable attenuation" : T.S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore and Irving Babbitt / Mafruha Mohua
  • "Part heathen, part Christian" : Recording transitions and amalgamations of belief systems in Constantine Cavafy's poetry / Sanja Bahun
  • "It was really rather fine to be suffering" : Radclyffe Hall at the queer intersection of masochism and martyrdom / Jennifer Mitchell
  • The Byzantine modernism of Djuna Barnes / Christos Hadjiyiannis
  • "Mixed sex cases among goats" : The modernist sublime / Matte Robinson and Lisa Banks.

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