This book examines the uses of myth and symbol in Lowry and Mann's major works and finds some remarkable similarities that exist because of structural tradition. Both authors are consciously and unconsciously continuing a tradition that can be traced to the beginning of literature in the Western world. Contents: Introduction; Lowry's Under the Volcano and Mann's ^IThe Magic Mountain; Recurrence of Patterns and Parallels in Other Works of Lowry and Mann; The Monomyth in Other Works of Lowry and Mann: A Non-Comparative View; Lowry and Mann within the Context of the Modern Novel.