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Help My Unbelief: James Joyce and Religion


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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 However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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's unbelief is critical for a fuller understanding of his work, Lernout takes his title from Ulysses, "I believe, O Lord, help my unbelief. That is, help me to believe or help me to unbelieve?", itself a quote from Mark 9: 24. This incisive study will be of interest to all readers of Joyce and to anyone interested in the relationship between religion and literature.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Joyce and the church according to the critics 2. The Holy Roman Apostolic Church 3. Heresy, Schisma and Dissent 4. Joyce's own crisis of belief 5. Loss of religion in retrospect: from Epiphanies to Exiles 6. You behold in me a horrible example of freethought 7. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state 8. After Ulysses Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Geert Lernout is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the James Joyce Centre. He has published The French Joyce (1990) and Iets Anders: De GoldBerg-Varieties van Bach (2001).

Review :
Lernout meticulously pinpoints and researches minor references to religion in Joyce's oeuvre, providing an index of ideas that will undoubtedly be an excellent resource for scholars seeking an explanation for religious allusions which have hitherto been overlooked or unexplained, particularly in Joyce's early work... This is a vast, informative work that will be useful both to new readers and experienced Joyceans alike. Lernout's book is an indispensible starting point for an extended examination of religion in Joyce's works and his always intricate perspectives. Lernout's vision is sharp and engaging. ... Lernout provides an excellent account of Joyce's work in relation to contemporary free thought and anti-clericalism. [E]nlightening, lively, original and exacting. Geert Lernout's book Help My Unbelief: James Joyce & Religion provides a comprehensive and helpful survey of both the historical context and the religious references in James Joyce's work...An obvious strength of this book resides in Lernout's work with primary and archival material like Joyce's notebooks and his library in Trieste...Geert Lernout's important work provides strong evidence to support his claims about Joyce's troubled relationship with both the Irish Roman Catholic Church and the Christian faith. The evidence he offers from start to finish from Joyce's texts, letters, and the testimony of others is incontrovertible.Three examples...Quod erat demonstrandum!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441106407
  • Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: James Joyce and Religion
  • ISBN-10: 1441106405
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256


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