Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination

Gregory Erickson is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, USA. He is co-editor of Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art (2018), co-author of Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred (2008), and author of The Absence of God in Modernist Literature (2007).

• Preface: Why Joyce? Why Heresy? Why Now?Introduction: Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist ImaginationChapter 1: Five Moments of Schism: A Selective History of HeresyChapter 2: Reversals of History: From the First Heretics to James Joyce and Back Again Chapter 3: Arius, Heretical Christology, and the Anxiety of Artistic CreationChapter 4: Ulysses, Medieval Heresy, and the Eucharist: Fragmented Narratives of DoubtChapter 5: Alternative Reformations: The Word, Iconoclasm, and Finnegans WakeChapter 6: Heretical Reading Strategies: The Book of Mormon and Finnegans WakeEpilogue: Writing and the Practice of Heresy: From Wake Reading Groups to Church Graffiti

Erickson’s book represents a major intellectual labour: it synthesizes more than a decade of cross-disciplinary study, and Erickson integrates an account of that journey into his argument … Erickson is an ingenious and engaging reader of Joyce … [R]eaders will be amply rewarded for taking the journey with him.