Modernist Patterns: In Literature and the Visual Arts

by Murray Roston

Overview

Even when there is no direct contact, artists and writers develop many comparable techniques for coping with problems specific to their time. In Modernist Patterns, Murray Roston explores the relationships between modernist artists and writers and their responses to the immediate challenges of their time, to the implications of Freudian psychology, molecular theory, relativist theory, and the general weakening of religious faith.
By placing the literary works of such writers as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway within the context of the changes that occurred in the visual arts, Modernist Patterns expands our understanding of literature and identifies the cultural shifts that generated stylistic innovations within the visual arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814775271
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1999
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Murray Roston is Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and has been a visiting professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia. He is also the author of Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts (NYU).

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Conrad's Stylistic 'Mistiness'	10
2	T. S. Eliot and the Secularists	43
3	Huxley's Counterpoint	86
4	Minimalism and the Hemingway Hero	118
5	Woolf, Joyce, and Artistic Neurosis	149
6	The Twentieth-Century Dyad	184
7	Palpable and Mute	211
	Notes and References	243
	Select Bibliography	274
	Index	281

Editorial Reviews

Roston (Bar Ilan U., Israel) explores the relationships between modernist artists and writers and their responses to the challenges of their time<-->the implications of Freudian psychology, molecular theory, relativist theory, and the general weakening of religious faith. He uncovers insights into the work of such writers as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway by placing their writings within the context of the changes that occurred in the visual arts, and identifies the cultural shifts that generated stylistic innovations within the visual arts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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