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In A Meeting by the River and A Single Man Isherwood attempts religious and existential themes, once more related to his preoccupation with self-identity, but now, because of his religious study, (conversion is not perhaps the right word), the themes attempt to show the transcendental experience and the physical isolation of man; the polarization of the spiritual and the sensual.
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Wade, S. (1991). The Religious Novel and the Transcendental Self. In: Christopher Isherwood. Macmillan Modern Novelists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21877-6_6
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