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Believing in Belief: The Modernist Quest for Spiritual Meaning.

机译：信仰：现代主义者对精神意义的追求。

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This dissertation argues that many modernist writers used concepts central to traditional religious belief in order to urge social change. Against the secularization hypothesis, which posits that the modernists fully jettisoned religion in favour of an unquestioned secularism, I argue for what I term "modernist spirituality," which identifies an integral continuance of spiritual concepts within the dire turmoil of the modernist period that destabilized the institutions such as an established organized religion that had previously formed the foundations of Western society. Hence, in each of my dissertation chapters, I have looked outside of organized religion to literature to find that spiritual impulse. Building upon the purposes of religion as defined by Sigmund Freud, William James, and Emile Durkheim, I name five concepts central to religious belief that the modernists sought to resignify, namely redemption, community, sacredness, the spectre, and liturgy, and, in each case, I have shown how these categories were reinterpreted to treat issues considered vital in the early twentieth century that would now be identified under the categories of feminism, ecology, biopolitics, crisis, and the role of the poet.;Key Words: Modernism; English Literature; Anglo-American Culture; Religion; Spirituality; Belief; Feminism; Ecology; Biopolitics; Spectres.;The first function of spiritual belief addresses the intertwining of redemption and humanity's actions within history, and for this reason, Chapter I focuses on redemption through the feminine as seen in H.D.'s book of World War II verse, Trilogy (1944-1946), which offers hope through a syncretistic blend of Christianity, ancient myths, goddess traditions, astrology, and psychology. My second chapter discusses John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which enlarges the role of community by positing a universal ecology of holiness that sees all people as connected with one another and with the land. Chapter III treats the notion of the sacred in William Faulkner's Light in August (1932) and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood (1936), both of which urge a privatized faith that emphasizes the illegitimacy of concepts of sacredness and pollution by elevating individuals who are marginalized biopolitically. Chapter IV seeks to comprehend the return of the dead in dreams or in visions, and I argue that the topos was used by modernists as a symbol of social crisis; the chapter first investigates Henry James' "The Jolly Corner" (1908), which I read as a dream sequence of a man facing his own ghost, James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), wherein Stephen Dedalus is haunted repeatedly by the ghost of his mother, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), which is textually ordered by the hidden motif of the Day of the Dead. My fifth section is an epilogue that treats liturgy, the poetic language used for religious rituals, in the early poetry of Wallace Stevens, who revisions the role of the poet as a vocation of the imagination.
机译：本文认为，许多现代主义作家使用传统宗教信仰中心的观念来推动社会变革。反对世俗化假设，即现代主义者完全抛弃了宗教，主张毫无疑问的世俗主义，我主张我所说的“现代主义精神性”，它确定了在现代主义时期的严重动荡中精神概念的整体延续性，这破坏了人类的稳定。诸如建立起来的有组织的宗教之类的机构，这些机构先前已成为西方社会的基础。因此，在我的每篇论文章节中，我都从有组织的宗教之外看文学，以发现这种精神上的冲动。我以西格蒙德·弗洛伊德（Sigmund Freud），威廉·詹姆斯（William James）和埃米尔·杜尔克海姆（Emile Durkheim）所定义的宗教目的为基础，列举了现代主义者力求代表的五个宗教信仰核心概念，即救赎，社区，神圣，幽灵和礼仪，以及在每种情况下，我都展示了如何重新解释这些类别，以处理在20世纪初期被认为至关重要的问题，这些问题现在可以在女权主义，生态，生物政治，危机和诗人的角色类别下确定。关键词：现代主义;英国文学；英美文化；宗教;灵性信仰;女权主义生态;生物政治学；精神信仰的第一个功能是解决救赎与人类行为在历史中的交织，因此，第一章着重讨论通过女性的救赎，正如高清的二战诗歌三部曲（1944-年）中所见。 1946年），通过基督教，古代神话，女神传统，占星术和心理学的融合融合为人们带来希望。我的第二章讨论了约翰·斯坦贝克的《愤怒的葡萄》（The Grapes of Wrath，1939年），它提出了一种普遍的圣洁生态，扩大了社区的作用，使所有人彼此之间以及与土地之间建立了联系。第三章论述了威廉·福克纳的《八月之光》（1932年）和德朱纳·巴恩斯的《夜木》（1936年）中的神圣概念，它们都敦促私有化的信仰，该信仰通过提升被边缘化的生物政治学的个人来强调神圣和污染概念的不合法性。 。第四章试图理解死者在梦中或幻象中的回归，我认为现代主义者把这个主题当作社会危机的象征。本章首先研究亨利·詹姆斯（Henry James）的《欢乐角落》（The Jolly Corner）（1908年），我读它作为一个梦facing以求的男人面对自己的幽灵詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）的《尤利西斯》（Ulysses）（1922年），其中斯蒂芬·德达洛斯（Stephen Dedalus）多次被他母亲的幽灵困扰。 ，以及弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）的《达洛维夫人（Mrs. Dalloway）》（1925年），根据死者日的隐藏图案在文字上是有序的。我的第五部分是结语，在华莱士·史蒂文斯（Wallace Stevens）的早期诗歌中探讨礼拜仪式，礼节是用于宗教仪式的诗意语言，他将诗人的角色重新定义为想像力。

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    MacPhail, Kelly C.;

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    Universite de Montreal (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 Universite de Montreal (Canada).;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Spirituality.;Literature English.;Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 471 p.
  • 总页数 471
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 肿瘤学;
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