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The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry
Souls and Shamans
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2019
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The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans is an interdisciplinary investigation of the multifaceted, intuitive insight of international modernist writer Malcolm Lowry through an analysis of a selection of works and correspondence. Nigel H. Foxcroft analyzes his psychogeographic perception of the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and civilizations in terms of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican customs; the Mexican Day of the Dead festival; the Atlantis myth; surrealism; and Russian literary, filmic, and political influences. He traces his intellectual efforts in pursuing philosophical and cosmic knowledge to bridge the gap between the natural sciences and the humanities. This monograph identifies Lowry’s attempts to reintegrate modernism with primitivism in his quest for an elixir of life for the survival of humanity on the brink of global catastrophe, as indicated in In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the Volcano. It also examines his sustained endeavors to attain psychoanalytical atonement with himself and his environment in Ultramarine, Swinging the Maelstrom, “The Forest Path to the Spring,” and October Ferry to Gabriola. It also discusses the odyssey on which Lowry and his literary protagonists embark to connect with the past and to gain a deeper insight into human nature in Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, La Mordida, and “Through the Panama.” Scholars of cultural studies, history, humanities, Latin American studies, literature, and Russian studies will find this book particularly useful.
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2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1657-0
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978-1-4985-1658-7
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Lexington, Lanham
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English
Pages
276
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Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
Chronology No access
The Influence of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School No access
In Pursuit of the Souls of Civilization: Bridging the Humanities and the Sciences No access
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Lowry’s Sussex Connections: Conrad Aiken and Edward Burra No access
The Allure of Mexico No access
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Ultramarine (1933) No access
In Ballast to the White Sea (2014) No access
Swinging the Maelstrom (2013) No access
The 1940 Under the Volcano (2015) No access
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A Silhouette of Civilization: The Trail of Russian Literary Influences No access
Russian Cinematic Links No access
Lowry and Marxism No access
Historical and Political Connections in the 1930s No access
The transformation of Marxism into Communism in Under the Volcano No access
Into the Abyss: From Trotskyism to Nazism and Anti-Semitism No access
From Ignatius Donnelly to Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society No access
Peter D. Ouspensky (1878–1947) No access
George Gurdjieff (1866–1949) No access
Inference No access
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The Psychogeographic Quest for Interaction with the Spirits of Mexican Civilization No access
Shamanic and Cosmic Phantoms No access
The Paranormal No access
Deciphering the Material and Spiritual Worlds: Mortals, Souls, and Shamans No access
The Day of the Dead No access
The Virgin of Guadalupe No access
In Pursuit of the Elixir of Life: From the Hindu Mahabharata to the Cabbala No access
Divine Consciousness: From the Cabbala to the Pleiades No access
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Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid (1968) No access
La Mordida (1996) No access
“Through the Panama” (1961) No access
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The Appeal of British Columbia No access
“The Forest Path to the Spring” (1961) No access
October Ferry to Gabriola (1970) No access
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An Enduring Legacy No access
Works Influenced or Inspired by Malcolm Lowry No access
