Catholic Nostalgia in Joyce and Company. By Mary Lowe-Evans
Inthis fascinating book, Mary Lowe-Evans challenges the fairly standard view that the effect of Catholicism on James Joyce's work was essentially one of reaction against it, to subvert the Church. On the contrary, insights central to Catholicism were fundamental to the perspective of the mature...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 370-373 |
| Review of: | Catholic nostalgia in Joyce and company (Gainesville, Fl. [u.a.] : Univ. Press of Florida, 2008) (O'Connor, John D.)
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| Summary: | Inthis fascinating book, Mary Lowe-Evans challenges the fairly standard view that the effect of Catholicism on James Joyce's work was essentially one of reaction against it, to subvert the Church. On the contrary, insights central to Catholicism were fundamental to the perspective of the mature writer. This suggests Joyce less as the iconoclast, than, perhaps surprisingly, a pre-eminent advocate of certain Catholic principles. As such, and given his enormous influence, Joyce is an obvious point of reference in interpreting contemporary and later writers dealing with Catholicism, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Merton and Flannery O’Connor. The second half of the book addresses the parallels between their work and that of Joyce, and his influence on them. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp028 |