... and the antimodernist stance of the Catholic Church during the opening decades of the twentieth century. Works cited Briggs Charles A. 1909 . “ Modernism Mediating the Coming Catholicism .” North American Review 189 : 877 – 89 . Brooks Peter . (2000) 2001 . Troubling Confession: Speaking...

...Marian Eide Contemporary Irish poetry is producing a tradition of memorial to the Famine years of the 1840s. Countering purist versions of Irish identity as Catholic, indigenous, and rural, this body of work is provoked by Famine memory to explore Irishness as diasporic and widely transnational...

...-Catholicism is a feature of some of the most celebrated works of English fiction. A century and a half before Leavis, Charlotte Bronte had juxtaposed English empiricism and Catholic superstition in Villette, much to the advantage of the English. When Lucy Snowe unburdens herself to a priest, her...

..., Catholics. In the adventuresome Greene, Query finds a use of Catholicism that shifts away from “institutional sources of power” through his “mobilization of the sacraments” (171). In contrast, Waugh presents Catholicism as “a top-down and Europe-out” structure that could potentially “anchor” Mexico...

.... But during the war, he stumbled on a Catholic Mass behind lines. It appeared to him “like the Last Supper” (48) and would remain a powerful memory for the rest of his life. In 1921, he converted. Asked in 1964 what Catholicism meant to him, Jones “pulled his hair . . . ‘like a little boy’” and said...

... to convert in the late 1860s was no small matter. While the practice of Catholicism was officially allowed in England by the time Hopkins matriculated, anti-Catholic sentiment still ran high, and as an Oxford student he dwelt in the midst of hot philosophical, theological, and political debate over...

..., but that make DeLillo look quite different from a cartoon postmodernist that blanches at any shred of foundationalism. Whereas she reads Gins- berg through his interest in Hinduism, Hungerford points to DeLillo’s Catholic background, which she invokes not to cast him as a religious writer on the order...

... Catholic novel by the eminent right-wing polemicist and sometime celebrant of radical anti-Semitism, Georges Bernanos. The novel, published in 1926, is Sous le soleil de Satan (whose second section is titled “La Tentation du désespoir”), and it periodically resurfaces in Sollors’s book as if to say...

... of a sub­ culture to the power of a cultural resource. (116) Thus Kavanagh’s poetry brought submerged Northern Catholicism into public literature and culture, an instructive move for the young Catholic poet from rural Derry, and one he would emulate often in his own verse (though while...

... respectable name. His colleague Joseph Crétin, the first bishop of St. Paul, went on to establish the city’s cathedral and contribute toward making the town the “middle-class, dull, unpoetical and fettering” center of Midwestern Catholicism that Shane Leslie felt it had become by the early twentieth...

...” (Gifford 34), serving as an image of his divine right as Catholic sovereign during his failed attempt at the English throne. Stephen’s interspersing lines from the Gloria Patria as he contemplates Deasy’s “treasure” ironically connects the “miraculous” preservation of the rare Stuart coins...

... and procedures from Roman Catholicism. 10. In addition to the three books that comprise the Wells-Belloc feud, Eliot is also reviewing The Life of Jesus by John Middleton Murry, The Anglo-Catholic Faith by T. A. Lacey, and Modernism in the English Church by Percy Gardner. The reviews of these “brilliant...

... of the pilgrim fathers, as carriers of Satan to the Americas, might seem to be a simple enough denunciation, in line with the Catholic doctrine on which Lowell was drawing. But in the ways the poem represents the land, obviously influenced by Lowell’s Catholicism, a poetics emerges that outlives that Catholicism...

.... If he means it, this critique applies not only to Islamists who drive ex­ plosive-laden trucks into buildings but also to a large swath of Roman Catholic history. To say nothing of the American president who confirms the direction of the war on terror, waterboarding and all, through personal...

...; the novelist, screenwriter, and journalist Joan Didion; and perhaps the most overlooked craftsman of the same trades, Didion’s husband, the late John Gregory Dunne. Although each of these writers brings to Noir a quite different ideological perspective—Marxian, lapsed conservative, skeptic Catholic liberal...

... owes itself to the growing attention paid by Irish newspapers to child imperilment, attention sparked by the tightening grip of Catholic nationalist ideologies. This developing “moral episteme” resulted in a “newly unified church-media-government complex” that took as a primary concern a “caste...

... of habit—one suspects that the portrait that emerges of the “natural” here owes something to Anglo-Irish stereotypes of those products of “mean rooftrees,”9 the unwashed Catholic majority. Yet like all such binomial schemata in Yeats, this opposition is riven with paradox. For even as Helen-Gonne...

.... As has been well documented, Bowen was deeply aware of the Anglo Irish sense of being stranded between anti-imperial national- isms increasingly driven by lower-middle-class, rural, Catholic Irish and a British nation whose drift toward capitalist-democratic modernity the Ascendancy had...

...—the presence of Catholics, Roma, and others alongside Jews—as evidence for the collective right of non-Jews to create or inhabit their own Holocaust narratives. Although the same answer wouldn’t exactly have worked for The Confessions of Nat Turner —as opposed to the diversity of Sophie’s peers, Nat’s fellow...

... to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Sartre, and the Catholic existentialist Gabriel Marcel. She heavily annotated Collins’s 1952 text, which defines the existentialist variety of phenomenology as the study of “objects precisely as they present themselves immanently in consciousness for purposes of knowledge...