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Blasphemous Modernism - The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh (Hardcover)
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Blasphemous Modernism - The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh (Hardcover)
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
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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. Blasphemy respects no division of church and
state, and neither do the writers who wield it to profane coercive
dogmas-including ecclesiastical and terrestrial ideologies of race,
class, nation, empire, gender, and sexuality. The late-century
example of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses affords, finally, a
demonstration of how modernism persists in postwar Anglophone
literature and of the critical role blasphemy plays in that
persistence. The transgressions of these writers spotlight a
politics of religion that has seldom engaged the attention of
modernist studies. Blasphemous Modernism enriches the scope of
modernist scholarship by resonating with broader cultural and
ideological concerns.
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