Modernist Patterns in Literature and the Visual Arts [Paperback]

In this stimulating study, the author explores how Conrad, T.S.Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley and others responded to the immediate challenges of their time, to the implications of Freudian psychology, molecular theory, relativist theory, and the general weakening of religious faith. Assuming that artists and writers, in coping with those problems, would develop techniques in many ways comparable, even where there was no direct contact, he positions Modernist literature within the context of contemporary painting, architecture and sculpture, thereby providing some fascinating insights into the nature of the literary works themselves.Acknowledgments List of illustrations Introduction Conrad's Stylistic 'Mistiness' T.S.Eliot and the Secularists Huxley's Counterpoint Minimalism and the Hemingway Hero Woolf, Joyce, and Artistic Neurosis The Twentieth-century Dyad Palpable and Mute Notes Bibliography IndexMURRAY ROSTON is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He
also holds a permanent appointment as Adjunct Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches frequently.