Download or read book The Absence of God in Modernist Literature written by G. Erickson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .