The Other Lawrence Durrell

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Release : 1991
File : 482 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106010294244


Lawrence Durrell Postmodernism And The Ethics Of Alterity

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This book is of interest for any reader wishing to explore the interface between literature, and critical and cultural theory. It investigates the notions of alterity which underlie the work of Lawrence Durrell and postmodernist theory. Grass (Irmgard Elsner Hunt).

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : Rodopi
Release : 1999
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9042004819


Lawrence Durrell

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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.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Julius Rowan Raper
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Release : 1995
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0826209823


Lawrence Durrell The Mindscape

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In this second volume of his study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell (following the appearance in 1988 of The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell Richard Pine examines in detail Durrell's unique contribution to the development of the modern novel, concentrating in particular on the evidence of Durrell's private notebooks and diaries. Pine's twenty-year friendship with Burrell has resulted in an intimate portrait of a singular mind whose extraordinary career, both as a writer and as a British colonial official, is hallmarked by the creation of 'the Heraldic Universe', an imaginative realm within which the artist reigns supreme.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-07-27
File : 460 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349234127


Re Reading The Alexandria Quartet Of Lawrence Durrell Durrell Studies 8

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Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet is regarded as the central work in his fiction. It has provoked critical commentary ever since the appearance of its individual volumes – Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive and Clea (1959) and the publication in a one-volume edition in 1962. Scores of Master’s and PhD dissertations have been written since the 1960s on this most compelling and provocative novel. Today, The Alexandria Quartet stimulates critical discussion in works addressing the city, Durrell’s representation of Alexandria, the theory of relativity, the role of memory, the recurring feature of the doppelgänger and the presence of the Gothic uncanny; his frequent references to D.H. Lawrence; his treatment of women characters; his interest in Gnosticism; and his own description of the Quartet as “a strange mixture of sex and the secret service”. This volume of essays addresses all these themes, and brings together the mature work of four scholars on this central work of Durrell’s fiction, together with two essays on its sequels, Tunc-Nunquam (1968-70) and The Avignon Quintet (1974-85).

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release : 2023-08-25
File : 175 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781527528499


Lawrence Durrell And The Greek World

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Novelist Lawrence Durrell's fondness for his adopted homeland of Greece led him to declare "I'm a Greek," and profoundly influenced his work. Attempting to capture the scope of the Greek world's relationship with Durrell's life and work, Lilios (English, U. of Central Florida) presents 22 papers that approach the topic from a range of perspectives. After a number of reminiscences of Durrell by family and friends, a set of essays are organized by place, examining Durrell's relationship with Corfu, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Cyprus. The remaining essays are grouped according to theme discussing such issues as the influence of myth and other "Greek inspirations" on Durrell's novels, poems, and other work. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Anna Lillios
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Release : 2004
File : 344 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1575910764


Lawrence Durrell

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He answers specific questions about most of his writings and indicates what he reconstructs as his intent in writing them.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release : 1998
File : 284 Pages
ISBN-13 : 083863723X


Lawrence Durrell S Major Novels Or The Kingdom Of The Imagination

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Through his use of Gnostic beliefs, Durrell destabilizes our notions of the "real" and suggests that the civilization to emerge out of the ruins of a devastated Europe will not be Christian, but Quincunxial. Durrell's aesthetic and thematic concerns establish him as a significant, indeed central, voice in twentieth-century British literature. His career, which spans over five decades, links the British High Modernists with the Postmodernists.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Release : 1997
File : 196 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0945636997


Lawrence Durrell S Woven Web Of Guesses Durrell Studies 2

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This volume presents a number of original essays on aspects of Lawrence Durrell which have not previously been discussed. Durrell (1912-1990) was the ground-breaking author of The Alexandria Quartet, Tunc-Nunquam (The Revolt of Aphrodite) and The Avignon Quintet and of many plays, volumes of poetry and essays. This volume, by one of the world’s foremost experts on Durrell’s life and work, explores his early literary connections with Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Alfred Perlès and David Gascoyne in topics such as surrealism and psychology. It features new insights into Durrell’s approach to popular literature, Greek politics and sexual orientation, and establishes Durrell’s mental states from an examination of his private notebooks. It presents a composite portrait of a writer obsessed with the themes of identity, creativity, sexuality and freedom.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release : 2021-02-23
File : 204 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781527566668


A Psychoanalytic Study Of Lawrence Durrell S The Alexandria Quartet

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A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalysis in an individual’s quest to explore existential issues, such as a sense of belonging to a homeland and a recurring sense of the Uncanny (das unheimliche). Rony Alfandary explores Durrell’s attempt to recreate a sense of belonging to a homeland, which perhaps never existed but can be retraced and reinvented through writing. This book studies some issues present in Durrell’s work: the connection between biographical and fictional elements in the study of literature the influence of early Freudian theoretical themes upon the writer later influences including post-modern and hermeneutic theories The life and work of Lawrence Durrell can serve as a prototype of a man’s quest for meaning, in a world caught in turmoil in the period between and during WW2. The author’s psychoanalytic exploration of the work and its relevance to human experience today, shows how the themes Durrell dealt with remain relevant. Alfandary highlights the ways in which his usage of several author narrative styles exemplifies the divergent and often contradictory nature of "Truth", emerging rather as multi-layered, multi-voiced and often torn sense of human subjectivity. A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return demonstrates Durrell’s strong influence by psychoanalytic thought and will appeal to both psychoanalytic and literary scholars.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Rony Alfandary
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-09-27
File : 176 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429782398