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Durrell and the City commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical understanding of all Durrell's urban landscapes, but focuses on the place that m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kaczvinsky, Donald P., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Durrell, Lawrence > Criticism and interpretation.
Durrell, Lawrence
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Alexandria (Egypt) > In literature.
Egypt > Alexandria
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Country and the City
  • 1. Urban Flight and Rural Reception: Modernist Refuge in Panic Spring and The Dark Labyrinth / James M. Clawson
  • 2. Real and Unreal Cities: The Modernist Origins of Durrell's Alexandria / James Gifford
  • II. Durrell's Alexandria
  • 3. Durrell's City as Interior Space: "The city begins and ends in us" / Linda Stump Rashidi
  • 4. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria: The City as Nexus / Anna Lillios
  • 5. Strangers in a Strange Land / Alice Bailey Cheylan
  • 6. Writing (on) Walls or the Palimpsest of Time in The Alexandria Quartet / Isabelle Keller-Privat
  • 7. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: A Culinary Perspective / Merrianne Timko
  • III. Cities, Places, and People
  • 8. From the Interior City: The White Negro Thinking in Pidgin / Paul Lorenz
  • 9. "Roses, Feces and Vampires": The Carnivalesque in Durrell / Fiona Tomkinson
  • 10. Reading the Ethics of Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet / Dianne Vipond
  • IV. Durrell and the American Literary Landscape
  • 11. "An Attention That Is Almost Holy": The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway / Matthew Nickel
  • 12. Reverie of Utopia and Actuality in the City: The Cases of Justine and Blanche Dubois / Michiko Kawano
  • 13. "Where the Blue Algonquin Flows": Durrell, New York, and the American "Spirit of Place" / Donald P. Kaczvinsky
  • 14. Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: 50 Years Later / Alan W. Friedman.

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