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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...
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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 However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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'
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Joyce and the Church According to the Critics; Chapter 2 The Holy Roman Apostolic Church; Chapter 3 Heresy, Schisma and Dissent; Chapter 4 Joyce's Own Crisis of Belief; Chapter 5 Loss of Religion in Retrospect: From Epiphanies to Exiles; Chapter 6 'You behold in me a horrible example of freethought'; Chapter 7 Free Lay Church in a Free Lay State; Chapter 8 After Ulysses; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;
