MYSTICISM AND THE MID-CENTURY NOVEL by James Clements ( 9780230353923 )

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MYSTICISM AND THE MID-CENTURY NOVEL

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0230353924

ISBN 13:

9780230353923

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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

1 November, 2011

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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

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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 -- Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Patrick White, and Saul Bellow -- 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 -- the opacity of language, and the loss of stable external sources of meaning -- 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.

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