The Absence of God in Modernist Literature

1. Introduction: Literature after the Death of God
Gregory Erickson

2. Reading God/God Writing: The Irrational and Difficult Name
Gregory Erickson

3. The Golden Bowl, Atheology, and Nothing
Gregory Erickson

4. À La Recherche and Proust’s Unstable Metaphors of Divinity
Gregory Erickson

5. Proust’s Theology of Music
Gregory Erickson

6. Schoenberg’s Godless Silences: Atonality, Poetry, and the Challenge of Coherence
Gregory Erickson

7. Schoenberg’s Impossible God: Moses und Aron
Gregory Erickson

8. Epilogue: The Other Side of God: Reading in the Dark
Gregory Erickson

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, Literary Theory, North American Literature