Title: New heaven, new earth : the visionary experience in literature /
Authors: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Publisher: Vanguard Press,
Year: 1974
Subjects: Mailer, Norman Criticism and interpretation.; James, Henry, Criticism and interpretation.; Lawrence, D. H.; Dickey, James.; Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson,; Kafka, Franz,; Beckett, Samuel,; Plath, Sylvia; O'Connor, Flannery Criticism and interpretation.; Woolf, Virginia,; Literature, Modern History and criticism
Abstract: Explores the ways in which such writers as Virginia Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, and Franz Kafka apply an innate awareness of the unifying life force permeating existence to their art for socially formative ends.
Contents: The art of relationships: Henry James and Virginia Woolf.--The hostile sun: the poetry of D. H. Lawrence.--Anarchy and order in Beckett's Triology.--The nightmare of naturalism: Harriette Arnow's The dollmaker.--The death throes of romanticism: the poetry of Sylvia Plath.--The visionary art of Flannery O'Connor.--The teleology of the unconscious: the art of Norman Mailer.--Out of stone, into flesh: the imagination of James Dickey.--Kafka's paradise.