Study Guide To Under The Volcano By Malcolm Lowry

Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645423164

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Study Guide to Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry by Intelligent Education Pdf

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, Under the Volcano is an almost autobiographical tale of self-destruction inspired by Lowry’s real experiences. Moreover, the text is considered one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lowry’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451132130

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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.

Author : Gordon Bowker
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571305568

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Pursued by Furies by Gordon Bowker Pdf

Malcolm Lowry was the troubled author of Under the Volcano (1947), a brilliant novel about the last day of an alcoholic former British consul on the Mexican Day of the Dead, the manuscript of which Lowry rescued from the flames when his fisherman's shack burned down in 1944. Lowry's other books were not always so lucky: his first novel, Ultramarine (1930), was stolen after four years' composition and resurrected from a carbon copy; another manuscript, In Ballast to the White Sea, was destroyed in the 1944 fire. An early draft of In Ballast was discovered this century and published in 2014. Lowry's life, like his work, was often lost to chaos; Gordon Bowker's 1994 biography is a masterful account of a life spent adrift.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571086098

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The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Author : Lawrence J. Clipper,Christopher Ackerley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780774845038

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A Companion to Under the Volcano by Lawrence J. Clipper,Christopher Ackerley Pdf

An item-by-item discussion of the innumerable, often obscure details of Malcolm Lowry's novel, this book comprises 1,600 notes covering some 7,000 specific points. The notes are keyed to page numbers in the Penguin paperback and the two standard hardback editions. The appendices include a glossary, bibliography, maps of the region, and an index of motifs. In their comprehensive but unpedantic commentary on the novel's complexities, the authors' emphasis is on the narrative level. All points of obscurity are followed by an interpretation of fact. Thus references are noted to films, books, places, foreign languages, and national and tribal histories. Special attention is given to the literary, mystical, and Mexican background.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684871257

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The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene Pdf

Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453286319

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Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

Seven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction. For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of stories—many of them published for the first time posthumously—provides great insight into the author’s genius. The stories range from heartfelt tragedy to exuberant triumph. In the novella “Through the Panama,” a burned-out, alcoholic writer tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat while the pulse of his life grows harder to distinguish. In “The Forest Path to Spring,” a couple that has survived hell finds new life in the seclusion of a vast forest. And in “The Bravest Boat,” a young boy sends a message across the ocean to an unknown recipient. Together, these stories reveal a writer who traveled widely, observed keenly, and maintained an engrossing literary style that still reverberates today.

Author : David Markson
Publisher : New York : Times Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002322348

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Malcolm Lowry's Volcano by David Markson Pdf

Author : Miguel Mota,Paul Tiessen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780774844710

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The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry by Miguel Mota,Paul Tiessen Pdf

To a remarkable extent the filmscript of Tender is the Night, which Malcolm Lowry wrote in 1949-50 with the help of Margerie Bonner Lowry, is less an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel than an extension of Lowry's own fiction. As Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen show, Malcolm Lowry's script contains important passages which are really "cinematic" restatements of parts of Lowry's novel Lunar Caustic, and of short stories such as "Through the Panama" and "Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession." The editors note also the many direct and indirect allusions to elements from Lowry's master-work, Under the Volcano (1947), a novel that is regarded by many critics as one of the most "cinematic" prose works of the twentieth century. A close study of the text reveals that Lowry took on the Tender is the Night project partly as a means of reopening his Under the Volcano narrative, of re-exploring its plot and problems and its characters and themes, and of carrying as far as possible the "cinematic" style he had begun to examine in that work. Lowry's Tender is the Night manuscript is important, then, not only as a completed, 455-page text in its own right but also as a text having a direct bearing on Lowry's own reading of Under the Volcano and of his sense of artistic direction after that work. Indeed, the editors consider the significance of the filmscript as a key - hitherto almost entirely overlooked - to understanding his projected multiple volume work, The Voyage That Never Ends. This scholarly edition of Lowry's script presents 38 passages of varying length - from less than one page to over 100 pages - in which Lowry writes with a freedom and creativity that lead to a text narratively and stylistically quite separate and distinct from Fitzgerald's original. It excludes passages where Lowry adheres more or less slavishly, at 37 intervals, to Fitzgeralds' novel, though it provides brief narrative summaries of and comments on those omitted sections. Lowry's achievement in his filmscript demonstrates the nature of his life-long commitment to and extensive knowledge of the international cinema from the 1910s to the 1950s and also the nature of his view of the novelist's responsibility to participate in the development of film as an art. The script also illustrates Lowry's relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald as one in a series of literary kinships, and as the editors point out, the work becomes a criticism and analysis of both Fitzgerald's novel and of Fitzgerald himself.

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140032959

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Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

Author : Malcolm Lowry,Chris Ackerley
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776621807

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In Ballast to the White Sea by Malcolm Lowry,Chris Ackerley Pdf

This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015074265532

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The Voyage That Never Ends by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

"At the time of his death in 1957, Lowry ... left behind a great deal of uncollected and unpublished writing: stories; novellas; drafts of novels and revisions of drafts of novels; ... long, impassioned, haunting, beautiful letters overflowing with wordplay and lament; fraught short poems that display a sozzled off-the-cuff inspiration all Lowry's own. Over the years these writings have appeared in various volumes, all long out of print. Here, ... the poet, translator, and critic Michael Hofmann has drawn on all this scattered and inaccessible material to assemble the first book that reflects the full range of Lowry's ... achievement"--Publisher marketing.

Author : Paola Di Gennaro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443879910

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Wandering through Guilt by Paola Di Gennaro Pdf

The first comprehensive study on the pattern of guilt and wandering in literature, this book examines the relationship between the two complex concepts as they appear in twentieth-century novels, positing its methodological premises on archetypal criticism and both close and distant reading, but also drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, and religion. This research deciphers a common paradigm and literary representation whose archetype within Western literature is found in the biblical figure of Cain, while presenting a critical framework valid for boundary-crossing comparative approaches. From Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, to Wolfgang Koeppen’s Death in Rome and Ōoka Shōhei’s Fires on the Plain, this book is not merely a thematic study, but an analysis of the literary phenomena that appear in those novels where the sense of guilt is controversially subjective, or so collective as to be perceived as universal, as is often the case with war and postwar literature. Di Gennaro goes beyond the analysis of explicit rewritings of the story of Cain, in order to uncover the monomyth through its rhetorical structures and mythical methods. The wasteland with no religion; the lost, abandoned garden; the classical and religiously-corrupted city; and the tropical, cannibalistic island at war are the respective settings of these narratives, where the issue is neither homelessness nor journeying, but, rather, the desperate and futile movement toward self-consciousness, or self-destruction. After the Second World War, much was silenced rather than left unsaid. This study retraces those silent cries over history through the powerful literary marks of myths.

Author : David Ryan
Publisher : Bookmarked
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1632460416

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Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano: Bookmarked by David Ryan Pdf

David Ryan takes on Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, one of the influential novels of the twentieth century.

Author : Frederick Asals
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820340272

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Flannery O'Connor by Frederick Asals Pdf

This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of Wise Blood to the climactic moments of revelation that infuse The Violent Bear It Away and Everything That Rises Must Converge, O'Connor's novels and stories wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt; they arch between cool narrative and explosive action, between a sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.