Catholic nostalgia in Joyce and company
By: Mary Lowe-Evans ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.
Series: The Florida James Joyce series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780813032856
Subjects: Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Religion; Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Influence; Fitzgerald, F. Scott -- 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation; Merton, Thomas, -- 1915-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation; Catholic Church -- In literature; American literature -- Irish influences
Description: "Although numerous critics and scholars have considered the influence of Joyce's Catholicism on his works, most seem to have concluded that Joyce's intention was to subvert the church's power. Mary Lowe-Evans argues, on the contrary, that the net result of Joyce's Catholic nostalgia is an entanglement in rather than a liberation from the labyrinthine ways of theological exposition and Catholic ritual and politics, which has inspired in his readers an enduring admiration for institutional Catholicism."--Jacket.
Notes: The papal bulls enlist The dumb ox -- Dogsbody "Marys" his mother -- The sermon on the seven storey mount -- The Maiden and the monstrance -- (Mary) Flannery underwrites James (Augusta).

Includes bibliographical references and index.