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The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature

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  • © 2001

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  1. Murray Roston
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. The Crisis of Identity

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 1-49

  3. Commissar and Priest

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 50-99

  4. The Adolescent Rebel

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 100-141

  5. Innovative Drama

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 142-180

  6. Terminal

    • Murray Roston
    Pages 181-220

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 221-248
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The scientific achievements of the modern world failed to impress the leading writers of this century, leaving them instead profoundly disturbed by a sense of lost values and of the insignificance of the individual in a universe seemingly indifferent to human concerns. In The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature Roston explores the strategies adopted by such mid-century authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity - strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism - and offer in the course of the investigation fascinatingly new insights into their work.

About the author

MURRAY ROSTON is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel and Adjunct Professor at the University of California. He has published numerous books on aspects of English literature, especially viewed in the context of contemporary modes in painting, architecture, and sculpture.

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