Blasphemous Modernism argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers...
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Blasphemous Modernism argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers forged the literature of modernism from the idiom of blasphemy. Cover -- Series -- Blasphemous Modernism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "First-Rate Blasphemy" -- 1. "For This Is My Body": James Joyce's Unholy Office -- 2. Blasphemy and the New Woman: Mina Loy's Profane Communions -- 3. Blasphemy and the New Negro: Black Christs, "Livid Tongues" -- 4. Go Down, Djuna: The Art of "Transcendence Downward" -- Conclusion: To Be as Gods -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
