TY - BOOK AU - Clements,James TI - Mysticism in the mid-century novel SN - 9780230303546 : AV - PR888.M93 C54 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, NY PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Murdoch, Iris KW - Golding, William, KW - White, Patrick, KW - Bellow, Saul KW - Mysticism in literature KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Australian fiction KW - American fiction KW - Philosophy in literature KW - Ethics in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index; Introduction : the middle is everywhere -- Towards an ideal limit : linguistic authority in the work of Iris Murdoch -- From apophasis to aporia : William Golding and the indescribable -- Verbal sludge : the ethics of instability in Patrick White's prose -- Bliss from bricks : Saul Bellow's moral phenomenology -- Conclusion: drawing circles in the sea : un-defining the 'mystical novelist' -- Endnotes ER -