San Antonio College Library

Neither simple apostate nor obedient Christian, James Joyce developed a uniquely ambivalent attitude toward his Irish Catholic roots--one that became inscribed in his imagination and served as a constant aesthetic focus and symbolic source in his fiction. In this study, Beryl Schlossman traces the theological and liturgical echoes that resonate in Joyce's work, particularly in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and argues that the writer's special brand...

"Much has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts." "Mark Bosco frames his investigation of Greene's life and work in terms of theological developments in Catholic discourse before and after Vatican Council II. He begins by looking at Greene's creative appropriation of the historically fixed notions of the Catholic literary revival in the early part of the 20th century, as illustrated...

In this well-written and comprehensive volume on Catholic writing in the United States, Ross Labrie focuses on works that meet three criteria: high intellectual and artistic achievement, authorship by a practicing Roman Catholic, and a focus on Catholic themes. Labrie begins with a discussion of the Catholic imagination and sensibility and considers the relationship between art and Catholic theology and philosophy. Central to Catholic belief is the...