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David Jones: A Christian Modernist? is a major reassessment of the work of the poet, artist and essayist David Jones (1895-1974) in light of the complex, ambiguous idea of a ‘Christian modernism’. His richly experimental and palimpsestic poetry, art and thought drew extensively on Christian tradition and symbolism as a key to the future: rejecting a technocratic and utilitarian modernity in favour of a revitalised culture of sign and sacrament. This volume examines historical influences on Jones’s development, his impassioned engagement with the idea of modernity and with modernist literature and art, the theological sources and resonances of his work, and contemporary or late-modern perspectives on his achievement.

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(...) David Jones: A Christian Modernist? not only accepts a variety of points of view, but also willingly asks difficult and even unanswerable questions to approach the ambiguities of Jones's spirit. As a result, the collection is one of the most nuanced and thorough studies of Jones's art, poetry, and theory to date. - Alex Assaly, University of Cambridge, Reading Religion, January 2019.

"""(...) David Jones: A Christian Modernist? not only accepts a variety of points of view, but also willingly asks difficult and even unanswerable questions to approach the ambiguities of Jones’s spirit. As a result, the collection is one of the most nuanced and thorough studies of Jones’s art, poetry, and theory to date."" - Alex Assaly, University of Cambridge, Reading Religion, January 2019."

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Jamie Callison, Ph.D. (2016), University of Northampton, UK & University of Bergen, Norway), works on modernism, religious culture, and poetry in performance. He has published widely on these topics in journals such as Modernist Cultures, Literature and Theology, and ELH. Paul S. Fiddes, D.Phil (1965), D.D. (2004), both doctorates from the University of Oxford where he is Professor of Systematic Theology. He has published extensively on the relation between literature and theology, and his most recent book is Seeing the World and Knowing God (Oxford University Press, 2015). Anna Johnson, D.Phil. (2012), University of Oxford, is Senior Development Manager at the University of Exeter. Her PhD focused on the visual and literary work of David Jones, and she has published articles on this topic (including “David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle” in Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, Boydell and Brewer, 2010). Erik Tonning, D.Phil (2006), University of Oxford, is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. He has published on Jones in Modernism and Christianity (Palgrave, 2014) and in the edited volume Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2014). Contributors are: Thomas Berenato, Sarah Coogan, Thomas Dilworth, Paul S. Fiddes, Thomas Goldpaugh, Daniel Gustafsson, Rosie Lavan, Alison Milbank, Micheal O'Siadhail, Martin Potter, John David Ramsey, Paul Robichaud, Matthew Sperling, Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Anna Svendsen, Simon Trub, Tom Villis, Jean Ward

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