Help My Unbelief
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Help My Unbelief

James Joyce and Religion

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Help My Unbelief

James Joyce and Religion

About this book

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 However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Joyce and the Church According to the Critics
  6. Chapter 2 The Holy Roman Apostolic Church
  7. Chapter 3 Heresy, Schisma and Dissent
  8. Chapter 4 Joyce’s Own Crisis of Belief
  9. Chapter 5 Loss of Religion in Retrospect: From Epiphanies to Exiles
  10. Chapter 6 ‘You behold in me a horrible example of freethought’
  11. Chapter 7 Free Lay Church in a Free Lay State
  12. Chapter 8 After Ulysses
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index