Modernist Patterns

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Murray Roston

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3. Conrad’s Stylistic ‘Mistiness’

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4. T. S. Eliot and the Secularists

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5. Huxley’s Counterpoint

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6. Minimalism and the Hemingway Hero

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7. Woolf, Joyce, and Artistic Neurosis

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8. The Twentieth-Century Dyad

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9. Palpable and Mute

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10. Back Matter

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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.

• architecture
• bibliography
• counterpoint
• English literature
• George Eliot
• literature
• media
• minimalism
• nature
• painting
• psychology
• sculpture
• time
• visual arts

• Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

  Murray Roston

MURRAY 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.

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