Modernist Myth

The writers in this study were living at the edge of change in a world severely rocked by conflict - a maelstrom of upheaval of values of community standards and of philosophical visions. Their task was to give [themselves and others] the power to change the world that is changing them to make their way through the maelstrom and make it their own. Their response was not to embrace the chaos but to move through it and re-establish limits in the broader beyond.