id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt rv042r39829 James Matthew Wilson Catholic Modernism and the Irish 'Avant-Garde' 2006 .txt text/plain 355 12 21 The results were a variety of critical and poetic works simultaneously representative of modernist practices in general (particularly in the development of denaturalized, deracinated literary language and forms that absorbed but spoke above locale dialects), and yet shaped by Catholic cultural traditions and, more than that, the developments of Catholic theological modernism and neo-Thomist philosophy and theology. Each writer found ways to harness the ironic, ontological and mystical languages of literary modernism for explicitly Catholic ends, but the novelty of their efforts emerges most clearly in their success at making modernism itself appear as an adjunct of Catholicism. cache/rv042r39829.txt txt/rv042r39829.txt