Lawrence Durrell : comprehending the whole
Lawrence Durrell excelled in a great variety of genres: poetry, drama, travel books, humorous writings, translations, critical essays, philosophical essays, character sketches, and, above all, genre- and culture-transforming experimental novels. In keeping with Durrell's multifaceted career and the centrality of his experiments, the essays in this collection use a variety of literary approaches to the diversity of Durrell's contributions to literature, illuminating four major dimensions of Durrell's writing. -- Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©1995
Biography
xii, 193 pages ; 24 cm
9780826209825, 0826209823
31013331
Introduction
I. Apprentice Durrell. 1. Ur-Durrell
- 2. The Achievement and Failure: Durrell's Three Early Novels
- 3. Panic Spring and Durrell's "Heraldic" Birds of Rebirth
- 4. The Lawrence Durrell Collection at Southern Illinois University
II. Familiar Durrell. 1. The "Romanticism" of The Black Book: Zoroaster in the Garden
- 2. Durrell, Derrida, and the Heraldic Universe
- 3. A Fellowship in Time: Durrell, Eliot, and the Quest of the Grail
- 4. The Artist as Shaman: Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
III. Hidden Durrell. 1. The Other Side of the Coin: Durrell's Antrobus Stories
- 2. Shilly Shandies: Lawrence Durrell, Eighteenth-Century Rationalist
- 3. Byron, Durrell, and Modern Philphellenism
- 4. Reflections on a Slender Volume: Durrell's The Ikons
IV. Final Durrell. 1. Pleasures of the Immachination: Transformations of the Inanimate in Durrell and Pynchon
- 2. The Philosopher's Stone and Durrell's Psychological Vision in The Avignon Quintet
- 3. "Members of one another": Systemic Imagery in Durrell's Avignon Quintet
- 4. Angkor Wat, the Kundalini, and the Quinx: The Human Architecture of Divine Renewal in the Quincunx
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