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Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World

Anna Lillios
Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World Book PDF

Author : Anna Lillios
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910764

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Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World by Anna Lillios Pdf

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).

The Greek Islands

Lawrence Durrell
The Greek Islands Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015043413767

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Drawing upon personal experiences and repeated visits, Durrell explores the landscape, history, mythology, architecture and archaeological heritage of the Greek Islands.

The World of Lawrence Durrell

Harry Thornton Moore
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Author : Harry Thornton Moore
Publisher : Carbondale, Southern Illinois University P
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003764631

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Seventeen interpretative articles about the work of Durrell.

Spirit of Place

Lawrence Durrell
Spirit of Place Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571265220

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Lose yourself in the definitive collection of glorious travel sketches by our century's best loved voyager and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Depicts the brio of Durrell's existence with intoxicating vividness.' New York Times 'Much more than just a chronicle of his travels ... Reveals Durrell's honesty, outspokenness, warmth, and extreme sensitivity to people and to the beauty of nature ... Unusual and fascinating.' Library Journal 'Excellent, vigorous, exciting, unselfconscious, with a lively, original vocabulary ... Shot through with strength and vitality.' TLS From the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece, and spent the rest of his life wandering the world. He traveled not to sight-see but to live, and made homes in Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, and Argentina. Each time he landed, he rooted himself deep into the native soil, taking in not just the sights and sounds of his new land, but the essential character of the country. In this definitive collection of glorious letters and essays, Durrell exhibits the power of poetic observation that made his travel writing so extraordinary.

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence

Rania M. Mahmoud
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Author : Rania M. Mahmoud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780755651030

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Female Voices and Egyptian Independence by Rania M. Mahmoud Pdf

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for inaugurating the British occupation of Egypt, and the 1919 Revolution celebrated in Egyptian national memory as the classic Egyptian revolution par excellence. Reading the novels against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves. Using a comparative lens, the study foregrounds the ways in which the authors confirm, critique, rewrite/revise, or reject developmental narratives. Female Voices and Egyptian Independence pays particular attention to women that range from the uneducated black slave, to the uneducated rural Siwan woman with artistic talent, to the wealthy cultured Coptic housewife, to the rising late nineteenth-century British female professional, and finally to the eclipsed twentieth-century Egyptian female national intellectual, all of whom play crucial roles in the journeys of the respective male protagonists, and by extension, the Egyptian national project.

Prospero's Cell

Lawrence Durrell
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Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571265213

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Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four transformative years on the island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the idyllic natural beauty and blood-stained ancient history within its rocky shores. While his brother Gerald collected animals as a budding naturalist - later fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals and filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - Lawrence fished, drank and befriended the local villagers. After World War II catapulted him back into a turmoiled world, Durrell never forgot the wonders of Corfu. Prospero's Cell is his magical evocation of the blazing Aegean landscape, brimming with memories of the places and people that changed him forever. 'Some writers reinvent their language; others the world. Durrell did both.' André Aciman 'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop 'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' Richard Holmes 'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' Elif Shafak 'Corfu could not have found a fitter chronicler.' Daily Telegraph 'A charming idyll ... Delightful.' Sunday Times

The Dark Labyrinth

Lawrence Durrell
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Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453261514

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DIVDIVWho will survive the Labyrinth of Crete?/divDIV /divDIVA group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete’s famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent girl, and the mysterious Lord Gracean. The group is prepared for a trifling day of sightseeing and maybe even a glimpse of the legendary Minotaur, but instead is suddenly stuck in a nightmare when a rockslide traps them deep within the labyrinth. Who among the passengers will make it out alive? And for those who emerge, will anything ever be the same?/div/div

Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry

Isabelle Keller-Privat
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Author : Isabelle Keller-Privat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930631

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Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry by Isabelle Keller-Privat Pdf

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.”

The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell

Bruce Redwine
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Author : Bruce Redwine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527578920

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The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell by Bruce Redwine Pdf

Lawrence Durrell’s position as one of the twentieth century’s leading novelists is continually being enlarged and revised. This book presents unusual and unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing, his family relationships, his biographer Michael Haag, and his affinity with such diverse writers as Rilke and Virgil. In particular, it offers an insight into Durrell’s emotions and sensibilities in elaborating his Sicilian Carousel and a penetrating and totally unique reading of Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet in the light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Tatiani Rapatzikou
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Author : Tatiani Rapatzikou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443802734

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Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism by Tatiani Rapatzikou Pdf

In this volume an attempt is made to tackle Hellenism as a global and transcultural entity. Through an array of essays, this book constitutes a comparative study of various literary, cultural and artistic trends as these develop throughout the course of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic. Having been designed with the general as well as the specialized reader in mind, this book will prove to be a valuable guide to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to a broad spectrum of readers with an interest in comparative literature, cultural history, history of the classical heritage, transatlantic studies, English and American romantic, modernist and postmodernist narratives. Its diverse material falls under the umbrella terms of “English Hellenisms” and “American Hellenisms” with the intention of enhancing intercultural dialogue and understanding. By embracing multivocality, as proven by the number of articles it contains, this book proves the tenacity, diachronic and intercontinental appeal of Hellenism at the era of multiculturalism and globalization.

Prospero's Cell

Lawrence Durrell
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Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000265869

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Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

For several years, Lawrence Durrell made his home on the Greek island of Corfu. Wanting to record the Ionian magic of the place before it was destroyed by the threat of war, he penned his reflections in the form of Prospero's Cell. Here, he evokes an atmosphere of happiness and radiance.

From the Elephant's Back

Lawrence Durrell
From the Elephant s Back Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781772120516

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From the Elephant's Back by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

"This collection has a straightforward ambition: to redirect the interpretive perspective that readers bring to Lawrence Durrell's literary works by returning their attention to his short prose." – From the Introduction 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.

Greece Between East and West

Richard Pine
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Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527501133

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Greece Between East and West by Richard Pine Pdf

Greece Between East and West looks at the central geopolitical situation of Greece, and its pivotal role in the Balkans and the Levant. The trend towards “modernisation” and “westernisation” is examined in the light of traditional values in culture, language, history and politics which reflect Greece’s eastern legacy and the continuing presence of that legacy in contemporary society. It features original creative writing, an interview with a leading film-maker, provocative accounts of political and cultural agitation on the Aegean islands, aspects of Greek music and drama, plus historical accounts of Greek cities like Smyrna/Izmir and Alexandria, and the new phenomenon of China’s re-creation of the historic “Silk Road”. Additionally, Greece Between East and West features a Foreword by Roderick Beaton, one of the most distinguished scholars and commentators on Greek history and social affairs, and current Chair of the British School at Athens.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

David Scott Kastan
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Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2656 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199725311

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf

From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl

The Making of a Counter-culture Icon

Maria R. Bloshteyn
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Author : Maria R. Bloshteyn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092281

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The Making of a Counter-culture Icon by Maria R. Bloshteyn Pdf

At first glance, the works of Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) do not appear to have much in common with those of the controversial American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980). However, the influencer of Dostoevsky on Miller was, in fact, enormous and shaped the latter's view of the world, of literature, and of his own writing. The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon examines the obsession that Miller and his contemporaries, the so-called Villa Seurat circle, had with Dostoevsky, and the impact that this obsession had on their own work. Renowned for his psychological treatment of characters, Dostoevsky became a model for Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anais Nin, interested as they were in developing a new kind of writing that would move beyond staid literary conventions. Maria Bloshteyn argues that, as Dostoevsky was concerned with representing the individual's perception of the self and the world, he became an archetype for Miller and the other members of the Villa Seurat circle, writers who were interested in precise psychological characterizations as well as intriguing narratives. Tracing the cross-cultural appropriation and (mis)interpretation of Dostoevsky's methods and philosophies by Miller, Durrell, and Nin, The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon gives invaluable insight into the early careers of the Villa Seurat writers and testifies to Dostoevsky's influence on twentieth-century literature.