Aldous Huxley’s Early Novels: An Unfolding Dialogue About Pain

• Authors: Jodłowska Joanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article examines four early novels by Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves and Point Counter Point – in connection to each other and to Huxley’s essays, in terms of an overarching theme of a cycle of pain, and thereby connects the novels to Brave New World. In the course of the analysis, the methodological problems of approaching the novels as ‘‘novels of ideas” are discussed, focusing on the problem of reducing characters to type, which makes it more difficult for readers to notice the way Huxley constructs individual characters and the arguments he wishes to explore with them. Finally, implications of the existence of this overarching theme for reading strategies are discussed.

Keywords

EN

prose fiction; Aldous Huxley; cycle of pain; novel of ideas; dialogicality; character construction

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 23/1
• Pages: 51-61

Contributors

author

Jodłowska Joanna

• Warsaw University

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