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Lawrence Durrell's Poetry
A Rift in the Fabric of the World
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2019
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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.”
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-68393-062-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-68393-063-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
332
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter One. A Private Country: The Poet’s Secret Cartography No access Pages 9 - 42
Chapter Two. Cities, Plains and People: Lands of Exile and Introspection No access Pages 43 - 76
Chapter Three. On Seeming to Presume: The Dream of a Secret Belonging No access Pages 77 - 128
Chapter Four. “Dreams bursting at the seams to die”: The Tree of Idleness, The Mauled Dream No access Pages 129 - 174
Chapter Five. The Ikons: Greece in the Mind’s Eye No access Pages 175 - 224
Chapter Six. The Red Limbo Lingo: “Thus words in music drown” No access Pages 225 - 266
Chapter Seven. Vega: The Star of Poetry No access Pages 267 - 304
