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Blasphemous Modernism The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh

Paperback • 2020 • English • 1. edition

Blasphemous Modernism The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh

By Steve Pinkerton

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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 c...Show more

Literary studies: postcolonial literature
Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction
Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy

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9780197523254

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Blasphemous Modernism The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh

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Paperback

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