Modernist Patterns: in Literature and the Visual Arts

Roston, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-12-07

Format: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9781349400041

ISBN-13: 9781349400041

DOI: 10.1057/9780230389403

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 306