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From the very beginning James Joyces 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 However, a careful study of Joyces published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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 Joyces 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Alternative belief systems

• Full title: Help My Unbelief
• Subtitle: James Joyce and Religion
• Author: Geert Lernout
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9781441131089
• ISBN: 1441131086
• ID: 04795966
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Weight: 516 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 162 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. February 2010

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