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Embodied panic: revisiting modernist ‘religion’ in the controversies over Ulysses and The Satanic Verses

2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09502360600828877

1470-1308

Jean Kane,

Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Clifford Geertz, ‘Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight’, Interpretive Social Science: A Reader, eds Paul Rabinow and William Sullivan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), p. 229. 2. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), p. xix. 3. Shane Leslie [Domini Canis], Rev. of Ulysses, Dublin Review (September 1922), pp. 113, 119. 4. Camille McCole, ‘Ulysses’, Catholic World (March 1934), pp. 725, 724. 5. Arnold Bennett, ‘Concerning James Joyce's Ulysses’, Bookman [New York] (August 1922), p. 570. 6. Aramis, ‘The scandal of Ulysses’, Sporting Times (1 April 1922), p. 4, repr. in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage, vol. 1, ed. Robert Deming, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), pp. 192, 194. 7. Certeau, Practice, p. xix. 8. Cf. Nikolas Rose, Inventing Ourselves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 38; Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 3, The Care of the Self, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon-Random House, 1986), p. 66; and ‘Technologies of the self’, Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault, eds., Luther Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick Hutton (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), p. 18. 9. Arthur Kleinman, The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (New York: Basic, 1988), p. 26. 10. Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press 1993), pp. 113, 151. 11. Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, Mass: October-MIT Press, 1990), p. 150. 12. 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