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9780815606970

A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815606970

  • ISBN10:

    0815606974

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
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Summary

A guide to understanding the sometimes difficult or obscure poetry of the six greatest metaphysical poets of the time.

Table of Contents

The Contemporary English Novel
3(16)
Waiting for Beckett: Quest and Re-Quest
19(21)
Lawrence Durrell: Physical and Metaphysical Love
40(22)
The Politics of Conscience: The Novels of C. P. Snow
62(23)
Graham Greene's Demonical Heroes
85(22)
The World of Elizabeth Bowen
107(24)
Joyce Cary: The Moralist as Novelist
131(17)
George Orwell: The White Man's Burden
148(19)
The World of Evelyn Waugh: The Normally Insane
167(16)
Normality Defined: The Novels of Henry Green
183(18)
The Intimate World of Ivy Compton-Burnett
201(19)
The Angries: Is There a Protestant in the House?
220(18)
The Still Comic Music of Humanity: The Novels of Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, and Nigel Dennis
238(16)
The Novel as Moral Allegory: The Fiction of William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Rex Warner, P. H. Newby
254(20)
Composite
274(19)
Afterword 293(2)
Acknowledgments 295(2)
Index 297

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