The art of relationships: Henry James and Virginia Woolf.--The hostile sun: the poetry of D. H. Lawrence.--Anarchy and order in Beckett's Triology.--The nightmare of naturalism: Harriette Arnow's The dollmaker.--The death throes of romanticism: the poetry of Sylvia Plath.--The visionary art of Flannery O'Connor.--The teleology of the unconscious: the art of Norman Mailer.--Out of stone, into flesh: the imagination of James Dickey.--Kafka's paradise.