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Makers of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Introductory essay: American and European makers of the twentieth-century novel / Harry R. Garvin —
Early European masters:
[1.] James Joyce: Baudelaire, Stephen Dedalus, and Shem the Penman /
J. Mitchell Morse ;
A portrait of the artist in Finnegan's wake / Bernard Benstock ;
Unposted letter: Joyce's Leopold Bloom / John Z. Bennett —
[2.] Virginia Woolf: "Death among the apple trees": The waves and the world of things / Frank D. McConnell ;
Beyond the lighthouse: The years / Herbert Marder --
[3.] Joseph Conrad: The masks of Conrad / Maurice Beebe ;
Conrad's menagerie: animal imagery and theme / Stanton de Voren Hoffman ;
The secret agent and the mechanical chaos / David L. Kubal —
[4.] D.H. Lawrence: The two Lawrences / Eliseo Vivas --
[5.] Andre Gide: The development of Gide's concept of personality / Leslie A. Shepard —
[6.] André Malraux: Malraux and Nietzsche's Birth of tragedy / Thomas H. Cordle -- [7.] Marcel Proust: From Jean Santeuil to Time regained / Germaine Breé --
[8.] Franz Kafka: Kafka and Proust: a contrast in time / Margaret Church ;
Kafka's The trial: the assailant as landscape / Frederick J. Hoffman --
[9.] Thomas Mann: Mann's portrait of the artist: archetypal patterns / Horst S. Daemmrich --
Early American masters:
[10.] Henry James: The real and fictive quest of Henry James / Motley F. Deakin --
[11.] William Faulkner: De ja vu and the effect of timelessness in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / John Hagan ;
As I lay dying as an existential novel / Robert M. Slabey ;
Faulkner's "golden book": The reivers as romantic comedy / James M. Mellard —
[12.] F. Scott Fitzgerald: Jay Gatsby and Dr. Diver: Fitzgerald's songs of innocence and experience / Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. --
New directions in the contemporary novel:
[13.] Alain Robbe-Grillet: Alain Robbe-Grillet: scientific humanist / H.A. Wylie --
[14.] Nathalie Sarraute: Nathalie Sarraute: alienated or alienator? / Madeleine Wright
[15.] Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Pnin: floating and singing / Dabney Stuart --
[16.] Saul Bellow: The romantic self and Henderson the rain king / Daniel Majdiak —
[17.] John Barth: Giles goat-boy: satire given tragic / John W. Tilton --
[18.] John Hawkes: Solid ground in John Hawkes's Second skin / Carey Wall.
Early European masters:
[1.] James Joyce: Baudelaire, Stephen Dedalus, and Shem the Penman /
J. Mitchell Morse ;
A portrait of the artist in Finnegan's wake / Bernard Benstock ;
Unposted letter: Joyce's Leopold Bloom / John Z. Bennett —
[2.] Virginia Woolf: "Death among the apple trees": The waves and the world of things / Frank D. McConnell ;
Beyond the lighthouse: The years / Herbert Marder --
[3.] Joseph Conrad: The masks of Conrad / Maurice Beebe ;
Conrad's menagerie: animal imagery and theme / Stanton de Voren Hoffman ;
The secret agent and the mechanical chaos / David L. Kubal —
[4.] D.H. Lawrence: The two Lawrences / Eliseo Vivas --
[5.] Andre Gide: The development of Gide's concept of personality / Leslie A. Shepard —
[6.] André Malraux: Malraux and Nietzsche's Birth of tragedy / Thomas H. Cordle -- [7.] Marcel Proust: From Jean Santeuil to Time regained / Germaine Breé --
[8.] Franz Kafka: Kafka and Proust: a contrast in time / Margaret Church ;
Kafka's The trial: the assailant as landscape / Frederick J. Hoffman --
[9.] Thomas Mann: Mann's portrait of the artist: archetypal patterns / Horst S. Daemmrich --
Early American masters:
[10.] Henry James: The real and fictive quest of Henry James / Motley F. Deakin --
[11.] William Faulkner: De ja vu and the effect of timelessness in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / John Hagan ;
As I lay dying as an existential novel / Robert M. Slabey ;
Faulkner's "golden book": The reivers as romantic comedy / James M. Mellard —
[12.] F. Scott Fitzgerald: Jay Gatsby and Dr. Diver: Fitzgerald's songs of innocence and experience / Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. --
New directions in the contemporary novel:
[13.] Alain Robbe-Grillet: Alain Robbe-Grillet: scientific humanist / H.A. Wylie --
[14.] Nathalie Sarraute: Nathalie Sarraute: alienated or alienator? / Madeleine Wright
[15.] Vladimir Nabokov: Nabokov's Pnin: floating and singing / Dabney Stuart --
[16.] Saul Bellow: The romantic self and Henderson the rain king / Daniel Majdiak —
[17.] John Barth: Giles goat-boy: satire given tragic / John W. Tilton --
[18.] John Hawkes: Solid ground in John Hawkes's Second skin / Carey Wall.
322 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1977
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