附註:Includes bibliographical references.
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.