The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion

ISBN-13: 9781474494786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

HOBSON SUZANNE

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Suzanne Hobson and Andrew Radford

Part 1: Key Figures and Movements
1. Ezra Pound versus T. S. Eliot on Christianity, Apocalypse, and Myth, 1934-1945, Erik Tonning
2. Virginia Woolf and Christianity, Jane de Gay
3. H.D. and Spirituality, Lara Vetter
4. D.H. Lawrence’s Dark God, Luke Ferretter
5. Harlem’s Bible Stories: Christianity and the New Negro Movement, Steven Pinkerton
6. The Jewish East End and Modernism, Alexander Grafen

Part 2: Secularity, Disenchantment, Re-enchantment
7. Troubled: Reverse Theodicy in Ward, Eliot, and Baldwin, Douglas Mao
8. Modernism, Secular Hope, and the Posthumous Trace, David Sherman
9. C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and “Word Magic”: Rethinking the Relation of Language to Myth, Leigh Wilson
10. Jean?Toomer and the Face of the Real: Between Sacred Presence and Disenchanting Violence, Matthew Mutter
11. Modernism and Political Theology, Charles Andrews

Part 3: Religious Forms
12. Virginia Woolf’s Agnostic, Visionary Mysticism, Gabrielle McIntire
13. Modernism, Abstraction, and Spirituality: Barbara Hepworth and Hilma af Klint, Lorraine Sim
14. Modernism and the Hymn, Sean Pryor
15. William James, Mysticism, and the Modernist Epiphany, Graham H. Jensen

Part 4: Myth, Folklore and Magic
16. Modernist Mythopoeia, Scott Freer
17. Yeats’ Sacred Grove, Seán Hewitt
18. The Modernist Grail Quest, Andrew Radford
19. The Burial of the Dead in Mann’s The Magic Mountain: Approaching and Retreating from the Sacred, Pericles Lewis

Part 5: Modern Esotericism, Pantheism and Spiritualism
20. The Modernist Afterlives of Theosophy, Allan Kilner-Johnson
21. Rebecca West, Modern Spiritualism, and the Problem of Other Minds, Jennifer Spitzer
22. “What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder”: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion, Rebecca Bowler

Part 6: Religious Space, Time and Ritual Practice
23. Sacred Ground: Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change, Jamie Callison
24. Liminal spaces and spiritual practice in Naomi Mitchison, Keri Hulme and Lorna Goodison, Elizabeth Anderson
25. Finnegans Wake, Modernist Time Machines, and Re-enchanted Time, Gregory Erickson

Part 7: Global Transitions and Exchange
26. Global Seekers in The Quest: A Case Study of an Occult Periodical’s Worldly Religion, Mimi Winick
27. “A Miserable Attenuation”: T. S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore and Irving Babbitt, Mafruha Mohua
28. “Part heathen, part Christian”: Recording Transitions and Amalgamations of Belief Systems in Constantine Cavafy’s Poetry, Sanja Bahun

Part 8: Queer[y]ing Religion
29. "It was really rather fine to be suffering": Radclyffe Hall at the Queer Intersection of Masochism and Martyrdom, Jennifer Mitchell
30. The Byzantine Modernism of Djuna Barnes, Christos Hadjiyiannis
31. “Mixed sex cases among goats”: The Modernist Sublime, Matte Robinson and Lisa Banks

Contributor biographies

Index