The papers collected in this volume were orginally presented at the conference "Commonwealth Literature and the Modern World", which was held at the University of Liège from 2 to 5 April 1974.

The full version of this book is available online via the University of Liège's institutional repository ORBi.

Table of contents

Melville and Harris : Poetic Imaginations Related in Their Response to the Modern World
Joyce Adler

The "Intimacy of a Horror" : The Tradition of Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock
John Fletcher

T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Wilson Harris's The Waiting Room
Eva Searl

The Poetical Journey of Derek Walcott
Michel Fabre

V.S. Naipaul's Free Statement
Alastair Niven

Towards a History of South African Literature
Albert Gerard

Black South African Literature in English, 1900-1950
Tim Couzens

The Criticism of African Novelists and their Narrative Resources
Christopher Heywood

The Nigerian Civil War in Nigerian Literature
Arthur Ravenscroft

Wole Soyinka Talking Through his Hat
Bernth Lindfors

The Cross Tilted to Fall: Hal Porter's The Tilted Cross
Anna Rutherford

Form into Shape: His Natural Life and Capricornia in a Commonwealth Context
Robert T. Robertson

Death as the Gateway to Being in Janet Frame's Novels
Jeanne Delbaere-Garant

Janet Frame's Brave New World: Intensive Care
Victor Dupont

New Direction in Canadian Fiction
Hallvard Dahlie

Wilson Harris's Contributions to Kyk-over-Al: 1945-1961
Reinhard Sander

Notes on Contributors

Members of the Conference