{"product_id":"9781441131089","title":"Help My Unbelief : James Joyce and Religion","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHelp My Unbelief\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Geert Lernout\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the very beginning James Joyce's 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 However, a careful study of Joyce's published and unpublished writings reveals that throughout his career as a writer he rejected the church in which he had grown up.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 Joyce's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781441131089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40597636186318,"sku":"9781441131089","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781441131089","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}