Books in the Studies in 20th Century Literature series

Here is a book which offers an original and comprehensive view of the thematic development in Greene's major novels from the mid-1920s to the late 1970s, cutting across the conventional distinction between the Catholic and non-Catholic phase, and illuminating the painful spiritual autonomy within which Greene's characters are impelled to operate in the twentieth-century wasteland, both in the ostensibly religious novels and in the later works.

Careful analysis of each of Green's novels, sustained by comparisons with various critics and writers, contemporary as well as non-contemporary, demonstrates the fruitfulness of this critical approach.

Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War.

An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies.

This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. Evolution of this theme is traced through forty years of White's fiction: from his first novel, Happy Valley (1939), to his most recent work, The Twyborn Affair (1979).

"Proceedings of the Virginia Woolf Centenary Conference, which took place on 20-22 September, 1982 at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge"--Introd.