Session Details

Saturday, 27 December

123. Modernism, Religion, and the Secular

7:00–8:15 p.m., Foothill G2, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: David R. Sherman, Brandeis Univ.

1. “Modernist Literature’s God after God,” Gregory T. Erickson, Mannes Coll.

2. “Modernist Religions: James Joyce’s Divine Milieu,” John N. Dudley, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “Shaking the Foundations of Skepticism, Joking about God: Search and Evasion in Modernism’s Atheistic Mysticism,” Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé, Univ. of California, Berkeley

4. “‘Silent Answers’: Hart Crane and the Language of Prayer,” Gabriel Alkon, Baruch Coll., City Univ. of New York

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