Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Heresy and Modern Literature
6. Heresy and the Modernist Imagination 21
7. “No, I better not say it. I might get punished”: Misotheism and Self-Creation in Tomás Rivera’s .‥ And the Earth Did Not Devour Him 35
8. The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake 51
9. II. Medieval Heresy
10. Unbelief and the Problem of Heresy: A Late Medieval Context 67
11. The Joys of Heresy: Benefits for Women in Medieval Heretical Sects 83
12. III. Heretical Theology
13. Saint Augustine: The Neoplatonic Father of Heretical Orthodoxy 103
14. Making the World: Against Spirituality 117
15. The Heresy of Humor: Theological Responses to Laughter 135
16. IV. From the Creators: The Artists’ Corner
17. The Novelist as Heretic 149
18. Beautiful Heresy: A Visual Artist’s Re-appropriation of Scripture 165
19. Pop Heresy: Songwriting at the Edge of the Speakable 175
20. Adapting Candide for the Stage 185
21. Epilogue: Heretical Unmaking 201
22. Notes on the Contributors 209
23. Index 213