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Mysticism in the mid-century novel

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mysticism in the mid-century novel/ James Clements.
Author:	Clements, James,
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : c2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (p.)
Subject:	Mysticism in literature. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230353923
ISBN:	9780230353923 (electronic bk.)

Mysticism in the mid-century novel
Clements, James,1980-

Mysticism in the mid-century novel[electronic resource] /James Clements. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,c2011. - 1 online resource (p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Middle Is Everywhere -- Towards an Ideal Limit: Linguistic Authority in the Work of Iris Murdoch -- From Apophasis to Aporia: William Golding and the Indescribable -- Verbal Sludge: The Ethics of Instability in Patrick White's Prose -- Bliss From Bricks: Saul Bellow's Moral Phenomenology -- Conclusion: Drawing Circles In The Sea: Un-Defining the 'Mystical Novelist' -- Endnotes -- Works Cited -- Index --.

The mid-century novelist has often been regarded as occupying an ambiguous intermediary period, lost somewhere in the no-man's-land between modernism and postmodernism. This book challenges this view by proposing that many of the period's most significant writers b6 s Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Patrick White, and Saul Bellow b6 s were united by a distinct and common concern: to return the increasingly interior novel to the world, and, by extension, to ethical engagement. They did this not by reviving the now-antiquated nineteenth-century realist novel, but by devising a new type of novel, one concerned with unveiling a transcendent Good that exists outside of the spheres of society, politics, and the individual will. To do this, without ignoring the philosophical ideas that had led to the novel's apparent impoverishment b6 s the opacity of language, and the loss of stable external sources of meaning b6 s they drew upon techniques and concepts from the canon of mystical literature: a body of writing that had long been devising methods of approaching the ineffable through literary means.

ISBN: 9780230353923 (electronic bk.)

Source: 520907Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Murdoch, Iris
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Mysticism in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR888.M93 / C54 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.91409

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