This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature JAMES CLEMENTS Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Dubai, UAE. INDICE: 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30354-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés