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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Wood |
| ISBN: | 0375752633 9780375752636 |
| OCLC Number: | 44916763 |
| Notes: | Includes index. Originally published by Random House, c1999. |
| Description: | xiv, 284 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Sir Thomas More : a man for one season -- Shakespeare in Bloom -- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness -- The all and the if : God and metaphor in Melville -- Half against Flaubert -- Gogol's realism -- What Chekhov meant by life -- Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions -- Virginia Woolf's mysticism -- Thomas Mann : the master of the not quite -- D.H. Lawrence's occultism -- T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism -- George Steiner's unreal presence -- Iris Murdoch's philosophy of fiction -- Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory -- Against paranoia : the case of Don DeLillo -- John Updike's complacent God -- The monk of fornication : Philip Roth's nihilism -- Toni Morrison's false magic -- Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much -- W.G. Sebald's uncertainty -- The broken estate : the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold. |
| Responsibility: | James Wood. |
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