Christian Heresy James Joyce and the Modernist Literary Imagination

Organized by heretical movements and texts from the <i>Gnostic Gospels</i> to <i>The Book of Mormon</i> this book uses the work of James Joyce - particularly <i>Ulysses</i>and <i>Finnegan's Wake</i>- as a prism to explore how the history of Christian heresy remains part of how we read write and think about books today.<br/>Erickson argues that the study of classical medieval and modern debates over heresy and orthodoxy provide new ways of understanding modernist literature and literary theory. Using Joyce's works as a springboard to explore different perspectives and intersections of 20th century literature and the modern literary and religious imagination this book gives us new insights into how our modern and secular reading practices unintentionally reflect how we understand our religious histories.<br/><br/>