Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries-aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these 38 previously unpublished or out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell's maturation as an artist was rich, complex, and subtle. This edition promises to open up new approaches to interpreting his more famous works. Durrell fans will treasure this selection of rare nonfiction, while scholars of Durrell, Modernist literature, anti-authoritarian artists, and the Personalist movement will also appreciate Gifford's fine editorial work.--Publisher description.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-390) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 824/.912
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781772120615
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- PR6007.U76
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- A6 2015eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxxii, 406 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00237078 (OCoLC)961368490 (CaOOCEL)451857
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Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction | James Gifford 14
- From the Elephant’s Back 34
- Personal Positions 58
- A Letter from the Land of the Gods 60
- Airgraph on Refugee Poets in Africa 62
- No Clue to Living 70
- This Magnetic, Bedevilled Island That Tugs at My Heart 80
- Lamas in a French Forest 86
- Ideas about Literature 94
- The Prince and Hamlet: A Diagnosis 96
- Hamlet, Prince of China 106
- Prospero’s Isle: To Caliban 116
- Ideas About Poems 132
- Ideas About Poems II 134
- The Heraldic Universe 136
- Hellene and Philhellene 140
- A Cavafy Find 156
- A Real Heart Transplant into English 162
- Introduction to Wordsworth 168
- L’amour, Clef du Mystère? 182
- Eternal Contemporaries 214
- Theatre: Sense and Sensibility 216
- The Happy Rock 220
- Studies in Genius VI: Groddeck 232
- Constant Zarian: Triple Exile 258
- Enigma Variations 268
- The Shades of Dylan Thomas 272
- Bernard Spencer 280
- The Other Eliot 290
- Richard Aldington 304
- On George Seferis 310
- Poets Under the Bed 314
- Spirit of Place: Travel Writing 318
- Corfu: Isle of Legend 320
- The Island of the Rose 330
- Can Dreams Live on When Dreamers Die? 344
- Family Portrait 350
- Letter in the Sofa 358
- The Moonlight of Your Smile 364
- The Poetic Obsession of Dublin 370
- Borromean Isles 380
- Alexandria Revisited 386
- With Durrell in Egypt 392
- Works Cited 412
- Index 424
- About the Author and Editor 440
- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press 441
