Table of Contents:
  • T.S. Eliot: Eliot and the objective
  • The early Eliot: poetry without a poet
  • The Waste Land-Enjoyment of the poetry
  • Eliot's substitute for sense
  • The Word without Flesh in the Four Quartets
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises and the failure of language
  • World pessimism and personal cheeriness in A Farwell to Arms
  • Hemingway's first "big writing"
  • Garrulous patriot
  • The iceberg and the cardboard box
  • William Faulkner: The unbearable and unknowable truth in Faulkner's first three novels
  • The word and the deed in Faulkner's first great novels
  • Language of irony: Quiet words and violent acts in Light in August
  • Thirteen ways of talking about a blackbird
  • Faulkner's inexhaustible voice
  • The truth shall make you fail
  • The summing up.