Mysticism in the mid-century novel
By: James Clements
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230303546
Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Australian fiction; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Ethics in literature; Mysticism in literature; English fiction; American fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the middle is everywhere; title: Towards an ideal limit : linguistic authority in the work of Iris Murdoch; title: From apophasis to aporia : William Golding and the indescribable; title: Verbal sludge : the ethics of instability in Patrick White's prose; title: Bliss from bricks : Saul Bellow's moral phenomenology; title: Conclusion: drawing circles in the sea : un-defining the 'mystical novelist'; title: Endnotes.