Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context

Shows how a kindred encyclopedic drive and sacramental sense informed these writers responses to the epochal trauma of the human estate by the 1920's. Augmented chapters encompass important features of modernist prose ficton reaching into and biyond WWII.

Gerald Gillespie is professor emeritus at Stanford University and past president of the International Comparative Literature Association. Among his recent publications is By Way of Comparison: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature.