The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature

Roston, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-09-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333763346

DOI: 10.1057/9780230597174

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 248