Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 “Shall I at least set my lands in order?”: Post-war Mythopoeia in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
CHAPTER 2 “If I could git more into the center of things…”: The End of Life in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer
CHAPTER 3 “For a transitory enchanted moment”: The Disillusion of Romance in Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
CHAPTER 4 “A Spectacle with unexplained horrors”: Disenchanted Ritual in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
CHAPTER 5 “The cycle is too cruel”: The Ambivalence of Myth in John Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown
CHAPTER 6 “Godamercy, they have shot the Holy Grail!”: Mythical Wreckage in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
Conclusion
Works Cited
