Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel

1. Introduction: The Middle is Everywhere
James Clements

2. Towards an Ideal Limit: Linguistic Authority in the Work of Iris Murdoch
James Clements

3. From Apophasis to Aporia: William Golding and the Indescribable
James Clements

4. Verbal Sludge: the Ethics of Instability in Patrick White’s Prose
James Clements

5. Bliss from Bricks: Saul Bellow’s Moral Phenomenology
James Clements

6. Conclusion: Drawing Circles in the Sea: Un-Defining the ‘Mystical Novelist’
James Clements

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature