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Blasphemous modernism : the 20th-century word made flesh /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinkerton, Steve, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Modernisme (Esthétique)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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