Description: This book explores transatlantic modernism and the relationship of modernist authors with the thought of their time and their search for meaning. It is an introduction to the interactions between literary modernism, artistic culture, religion, and philosophy. The novelists studied include Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, Mann, Hemingway, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, and others. The poets include Eliot, Rilke, Stevens, Frost, Williams, and Moore. Literary modernism engaged explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers sought belief or denied it and participated in the intellectual spirit of their time.
