The Absence of God in Modernist Literature

This Book Combines Literary Criticism, Postmodern Theology, Philosophy, And Musicology In A Rethinking Of The Relationship Of Modernist Literature And Religion. Erickson Argues That Theological Modes Of Thinking Are Ingrained In The Very Roots Of Our Metaphysical Assumptions, And Are Impossible To Escape, Even And Especially In The Skeptical And Experimental Woks Of Modernism. By Concentrating On Moments Of Difficulty And Ambiguity In Works Such As Henry James's The Golden Bowl, Marcel Proust's In Search Of Lost Time, And Arnold Schoenberg's Opera Moses Und Aron, The Book Identifies The Paradoxical Construction Of A God-idea Buried In The Tropes And Metaphors Of Each Text.--book Jacket. Literature After The Death Of God -- Reading God/god Writing ; The Irrational And Difficult Name -- The Golden Bowl, Atheology, And Nothing -- À La Recherche And Proust's Unstable Metaphors Of Divinity -- Proust's Theology Of Music -- Schoenberg's Godless Silences : Atonality, Poetry, And The Challenge Of Coherence -- Schoenberg's Impossible God : Moses Und Aron -- The Other Side Of God : Reading In The Dark. Gregory Erickson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [221]-232) And Index. Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .