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Author: Richard Pine Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527528499 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 175
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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).
Author: Richard Pine Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527528499 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
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).
Author: Corinne Alexandre-Garner Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : fr Pages : 266
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Au carrefour des champs du structuralisme, de la sémiotique et de la psychanalyse, ce livre étudie le texte en tant que discours qui met à jour non seulement les intentions d'écriture de l'auteur mais aussi un contenu latent où il se «trahit». Il interroge Alexandrie, à la fois ville et femme, en suivant les manifestations de l'amour polymorphe qui évoquent les enchevêtrements sadiens. C'est au coeur du miroir, compris à la fois en tant que centre des récits où les mots s'enchaînent et les corps se déchaînent, et en tant qu'objet/reflet du regard, que se dresse la figure androgyne du couple incestueux et que s'inscrivent l'arrêt du langage, le silence et «l'enfant mort». Dans l'ombre de la scène d'Alexandrie, l'autre scène, la représentation d'une femme, intègre et au corps double, dans le temps et l'espace, s'oppose à celle de tous les corps morcelde tous les corps morcelés des personnages de la fiction. Les différents récits des narrateurs et les textes d'auteurs réels qu'ils citent, s'incrustent les uns dans les autres et s'inscrivent sur la surface de palimpseste qu'est le texte de l'auteur: texte dont l'origine se perd, qui vient à terme, dont le narrateur accouche comme une femme et qui semble enfin panser la blessure que le texte évoque. La question qui se pose alors est celle de l'écriture. Dans quelle mesure est-elle la dénégation de la béance qu'elle circonscrit dans le texte?
Author: Isabelle Keller-Privat Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1683930630 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 339
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This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell’s writing, both poetic and fictional, drawing links to his novels and residence books, which he kept writing at the same time. Durrell thus appears as first and foremost one of the greatest late modernist poets whose literary and epistemological investigations are to be understood in the light of a worldwide network of literary brotherhoods including T. S. Eliot, Michael Fraenkel, Henry Miller, and David Gascoyne. Simultaneously, this book shows why Durrell must also be read as the heir to the greatest English romantic poets (Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth) as well as to the French symbolists and modernists (from Baudelaire to Nerval, Valéry, and Cendrars).This comparative approach opens up a brand new perspective on Durrell that has not yet been broached by North American and English scholarship. The symbolic patterns, the stylistic ploys, and the aesthetic and philosophic tenets that characterize Durrell’s poetics account for the necessary back-and-forth reading that connects prose and poetry, the fictional and the lyrical, the descriptive and the abstract. Poetry excerpts, extracts from his residence books, novels, and essays highlight not only Durrell’s complex literary strategies but also the ontological quest of a writer who, although never at home with the world he lived in, strove to create a life-world, what semiologists call the “Umwelt.”
Author: Anna Lillios Publisher: Susquehanna University Press ISBN: 9781575910765 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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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).
Author: Suzanne Nalbantian Publisher: Springer ISBN: 134925505X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 290
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This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions. Various contributors scrutinize Nin's artistry, identifying her unique modernist techniques and her poetic vision. Others observe the transfer of her psychoanalytical positions to narrative. The volume also contains fresh views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell as well as innovative analyses of the reception of her works.
Author: Donald P. Kaczvinsky Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1611474531 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 233
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Durrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his early novels to Avignon during World War II in his last great series, while focusing on the place that made him famous--the city of Alexandria--in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.
Author: Université de Paris X: Nanterre. Centre de recherches sur les origines de la modernité et les pays anglophones Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 300
Author: Richard Pine
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Author: Isabelle Keller-Privat
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