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Lawrence, Greene and Lowry

Autor: Douglas W. Veitch

Número de Páginas: 208

When writers go on journeys it is as often to explore the terra incognita of their own selves as to establish the identities of strange lands; in the case of many English novelists between the great wars it was certainly true, as Douglas Veitch remarks in the study I am introducing, that their work, "even as it essayed the exotic, cast an eye homeward and inward", and that they "roamed the world, seeking surcease from a prevailing malaise which doubted the values of Western Civilization." ... Mr. Veitch has taken this vital element in the three novels—The Plumed Serpent, The Power and the Glory and Under The Volcano—and has used it not merely to examine these works themselves but also to sketch out the ambivalent role which landscape plays in all fiction, as omnipresent background but also as a rich source of symbols and images reflecting the human drama which a book develops. He has, as he more than once makes clear, done more than read all the relevant literature; he has himself travelled to Mexico in order to see and experience the extraordinary terrain, and, as I can vouch on the basis of my own knowledge of that infinitely attractive and repellent country, he used his...

Conrad et Lowry

Autor: Faculté Des Lettrres Et Des Sciences Humaines. Société Conradienne Française

Número de Páginas: 208

Ce numéro de L'Époque Conradienne rassemble la plupart des communications présentées lors du colloque international organisé en septembre 1999 à l'Université Lumière - Lyon II sur le thème : Conrad and Lowry : l'esth-éthique de la fiction. Les comparaisons, rapprochements éthiques et divergences esthétiques entre ces deux auteurs dominent donc dans cette livraison et enrichissent notre vision de deux œuvres majeures du XXe siècle. Conrad, moins omniprésent que d'habitude, profite cependant de ces regards croisés qui soulignent, une fois de plus, son rôle fondamental dans l'éclosion de la modernité.

Malcolm Lowry

Autor: Tony Cartano

Número de Páginas: 110

Paraphrasant Lowry, Cartano affirme — d’entrée de jeu — que cette approche sera comme « une musique hot, un poème, une chanson, une tragédie, une comédie, une farce, et ainsi de suite ». De fait, l’absence apparente de méthode, le long cheminement en compagnie du texte lowrien, la récurrence, la mise à nu, l’indiscrétion même, une sorte de mimétisme tout à fait assumé, conduisent le lecteur au cœur même de l’œuvre. Il s’agit bien là d’une « machine », d’une « initiation ». Ainsi, à travers Lowry, un écrivain s’interroge sur la création littéraire, en s’impliquant — à corps perdu — dans le texte lowrien, et en le vivant au présent. « Une vie d’homme... est une fiction qu’il invente à mesure qu’il progresse », disait l’auteur d’Au-dessous du volcan. Ce volcan, qui rongea la vie de Lowry jusqu’à la destruction finale. C’est ce que Cartano nous fait intensément sentir, mettant en lumière — s’il en était encore besoin — l’extraordinaire modernité de Lowry, sa dimension aussi, en un mot son universalité.

La mordida

Autor: Malcolm Lowry

Número de Páginas: 351

«Deambularon en la oscuridad por la ciudad empedrada, hechizada de campanadas, bebieron su medio litro de habanero y luego durmieron uno en brazos del otro. Una repentina tormenta eléctrica los había despertado esa noche.» Aunque Malcolm Lowry publicó solamente dos novelas en vida — Bajo elvolcán y Ultramarina—, dejó numerosos manuscritos que ya han sido, en su mayoría, publicados. La mordida, el manuscrito más significativo entre los que han permanecido inéditos, traducido hasta ahora al español, y editado por Patrick A. McCarthy,es el borrador de una novela basada en el viaje de Lowry a México en 1945-1946, que terminó con el arresto y deportación del escritor y su esposa tras un pesadillezco encuentro con las autoridades corruptas de migración. En el nivel más inmediato, el título deeste libro se refiere a la expresión mexicana que nombra el soborno dado para expeditar algún trámite burocrático y tiene que ver con los problemas legales del protagonista. En un sentido más amplio, representa también su dificultad para evadirse del pasado y saldar la multa, o deuda, que tiene pendiente. La mordida es un descenso al abismo del ser, un transitar por los...

Joyce/Lowry

Autor: Patrick A. Mccarthy , Paul Tiessen

Número de Páginas: 332

While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce. Wherever the truth lies, there are correspondences and differences to be explored between Joyce and Lowry that are far more interesting than the question of direct influence. Despite numerous differences, their works have much in common: verbal richness, experimentation with narrative structure and perspective, a fascination with cultural and historical forces as well as with the process of artistic creation, and the inclusion of artist figures who are in varying degrees ironic self-portrayals. The contributors to Joyce/Lowry examine the relationship of these two expatriates writers, both to each other and to broader issues in the study of literary modernism and its aftermath. This collection embraces a variety of approaches. The volume begins with a consideration of Joyce and Lowry as practitioners of Expressionist art and concludes with an essay on John Huston's cinematic interpretation of works by both writers. In between are explorations of nationalism, anti-Semitism, syphilis, mental...

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Autor: Mark Hawkins-dady

Número de Páginas: 1024

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000

Autor: Brian W. Shaffer

Número de Páginas: 608

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives

Autor: Jamie Callison , Matthew Feldman , Anna Svendsen , Erik Tonning

Número de Páginas: 417

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the 'archival turn' in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing 'practitioner's toolkit' (including useful bibliographical resources) and a guide to avenues for future work. Archival work in modernist studies has revolutionised the discipline in the past two decades, fuelled by innovative and ambitious scholarly editing projects and a growing interest in fresh types of archival sources and evidence that can re-contextualise modernist writing. Several theoretical trends have prompted this development, including the focus on compositional process within genetic manuscript studies, the emphasis on book history, little magazines, and wider publishing contexts, and the emphasis on new material evidence and global and 'non-canonical' authors and networks within the 'New Modernist Studies'. This book provides a guide to the variety of new archival research that will point to fresh avenues and connect the methodologies and resources being developed across modernist studies. Offering a variety of single-author case studies on recent archival developments and editing projects, including Samuel...

An Appointment with Somerset Maugham

Autor: Richard Hauer Costa

Número de Páginas: 252

"Now, just ask yourself", Maugham said without the least suggestion of a stutter, "wouldn't it be a dreadful world if pleasure ruled?" But pleasure has ruled Richard Costa's world - the pleasure of books and their writers. In this charming and insightful reminiscence, he introduces readers to a host of literary lives that have touched him: Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, Malcolm Lowry, Conrad Aiken, Edmund Wilson, Kingsley Amis, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, and others. The journey of the mind and heart Costa traces has some illustrious guides. Reading and re-reading the works of memorable writers of our time, interviewing them, and writing about them, he has woven literature into his life in a way that provides illumination and just plain interest for those who read the story here. In his intellectual and literary chronicle, readers will find much humor, much memory, and much food for thought.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Autor: David Scott Kastan

Número de Páginas: 2648

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

Oedipus Against Freud

Autor: Bradley W. Buchanan

Número de Páginas: 217

Sigmund Freud's interpretation of the Oedipus myth - that subconsciously, every man wants to kill his father in order to obtain his mother's undivided attention - is widely known. Arguing that the pervasiveness of Freud's ideas has unduly influenced scholars studying the works of Modernist writers, Bradley W. Buchanan re-examines the Oedipal narratives of authors such as D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce in order to explore their conflicted attitudes towards the humanism that underpins Freud's views. In the alternatives to the Freudian version of Oedipus offered by twentieth-century authors, Buchanan finds a complex examination of the limits of human understanding. Following the analyses of philosophers such as G.W.F. Hegel and Frederick Nietzsche and anticipating critiques by writers such as Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, British Modernists saw Oedipus as representative of the embattled humanist project. Closing with the concept of posthumanism as explored by authors such as Zadie Smith, Oedipus Against Freud demonstrates the lasting significance of the Oedipus story.

Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture

Número de Páginas: 400

Our contemporary society is obsessed with the idea of self-optimization, a concept that implies the need to constantly work on improving oneself and one’s appearance. The roots of postmodern self-optimization, however, lie in the cultural industries that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its equally profound and transient interest in new forms of expression, new ways of life, and new technologies, modernism thoroughly and critically embraced the idea of the self as something that can be created and recreated, either in accordance with or in contradiction to social norms. This book explores strategies of self-optimization developed in modernist literature and culture. In doing so, it offers a panoramic view of an often-overlooked aspect of European and North American modernity that anticipates our current postmodern crisis of the self.

A Companion to Under the Volcano

Autor: Lawrence J. Clipper , Christopher Ackerley

Número de Páginas: 494

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.

Literary Trips

Autor: Victoria Brooks

Número de Páginas: 388

"Slices of on-the-road literary history and detail-rich travel romps with famous writers." Sheila F. Buckmaster, senior editor, National Geographic Traveler

Infierno y paraíso de las islas

Autor: Miguel Ángel Moreta-lara

Número de Páginas: 228

Este es un libro sobre la mar, donde tantos libros se perdieron, donde naufragan hermosos seres en islas de ensueño o de dolor. Persigue la ebria poesía de los mascarones. Surca mares amargos subido a la madera con la que se fabrican libros y barcos. Este es un libro sobre mujeres fascinantes y maldecidas. Acaso marear estas páginas sea también piratear historias que tratan de tantas luchadoras y ninguneadas. Este libro quiere desplegar velas, encender cirios que iluminan las diosas locas, cisnes en la charca.

Anna Wickham

Autor: Jennifer Vaughan Jones

Número de Páginas: 396

Based on new documents and family correspondence, and including twenty complete poems, this marvelous biography chronicles the life of British poet Anna Wickham.

Atlas de (otro) México

Autor: Rafael Lemus

Número de Páginas: 232

PARA CUALQUIER LECTOR HAY DOS MÉXICOS: UNO REAL Y OTRO IMAGINADO. La patria es lo que sabemos de la patria. Y para quienes han leído a Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Roberto Bolaño o Fernanda Melchor, lugares como Comala, Ixtepec, Santa Teresa o La Matosa son parte central y entrañable de su México. Atlas de (otro) México nos invita a recorrer un mapa inasible —pero completamente cierto— de los sitios imaginados por nuestra literatura. Ciudades utópicas. Rancherías malditas. Pueblos afantasmados. Este libro es un atlas que sirve lo mismo para encontrarnos que para perdernos. Un mapa que nos introduce en los laberintos de la creación para mostrarnos una imagen más amplia, más cabal, más real de México.

Writing Liverpool

Autor: Michael Murphy , Deryn Rees-jones

Número de Páginas: 301

Beryl Bainbridge, Clive Barker, Terence Davies, and J. G. Farrell represent only a handful of the fascinating and provocative writers who have emerged from the Liverpool literary scene in the past seventy-five years. Published in commemoration of Liverpool’s 800th birthday in 2007 and in celebration of its status as a European City of Culture in 2008, Writing Liverpool presents a selection of essays and interviews with the filmmakers, journalists, cultural critics, and novelists who have called the city home—asking if there is a distinctive Liverpool voice, and if so, how we identify it.

Wandering through Guilt

Autor: Paola Di Gennaro

Número de Páginas: 293

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...

Ceci n’est pas une tragédie

Autor: Françoise Palleau-papin

Número de Páginas: 308

Première monographie consacrée à cet écrivain américain particulièrement novateur, Ceci n’est pas une tragédie présente l’ensemble de son œuvre, de 1956 à 2007. David Markson renouvelle la forme romanesque pour dire quelque chose de notre époque, de la fragmentation de sa culture, de son questionnement, de ses triomphes et de ses échecs. Depuis son roman parodique du Far West et les romans policiers des années 1960, ou encore ses expériences avec l’écriture sous contrainte dans les années 1970, jusqu’aux récits les plus récents, dont La Maîtresse de Wittgenstein et Arrêter d’écrire, Markson joue avec la forme romanesque, qu’il parodie, fragmente et redéfinit. Proche de la monodie de la tragédie grecque, mais sans la cohérence d’un cosmos balisé, sa voix narrative dresse un pacte autobiographique particulier, dépassant l’individu, dans le monde incertain d’après la Shoah. Entre l’hyper-roman à la manière d’Italo Calvino et le murmure beckettien d’une voix proche du silence, Markson trouve une expression singulière, troublante, intime : celle de nos aspirations et de nos doutes.

La guerra contra el cliché

Autor: Martin Amis

Número de Páginas: 347

Martín Amis es, como John Updike, el más destacado novelista-y-crítico de su generación. Con un ingenio afilado como una cuchilla de afeitar y juicios inimitables, desmenuza aquí, siempre amenísimo, una asombrosa variedad de lugares comunes sobre temas que van desde el ajedrez, las armas nucleares, la masculinidad y la censura cinematográfica hasta Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol, Hillary Clinton y Margaret Thatcher. Sus mejores artículos y ensayos de los últimos veinticinco años han sido recopilados en esta sustancial y variada colección, que incluye escritos sobre Cervantes, Milton, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Joyce, Wodehouse, Nabokov, Evelyn Waugh, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, Malcolm Lowry, Gore Vidal, Don Delillo, Elmore Leonard, Tom Wolfe y John Updike.

Think to New Worlds

Autor: Joshua Blu Buhs

Número de Páginas: 395

How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of bizarre occurrences: dogs that talked, vampires, strange visions in the sky, and paranormal activity. His books of anomalies advanced a philosophy that saw science as a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsehood continually transformed into one another. His work found a ragged following of skeptics who questioned not only science but the press, medicine, and politics. Though their worldviews varied, they shared compelling questions about genius, reality, and authority. At the center of this community was adman, writer, and enfant terrible Tiffany Thayer, who founded the Fortean Society and ran it for almost three decades, collecting and reporting on every manner of oddity and conspiracy. In Think to New Worlds, Joshua Blu Buhs argues that the Fortean effect on modern culture is deeper than you think. Fort’s descendants provided tools to expand the imagination,...

Viva

Autor: Patrick Deville

Número de Páginas: 186

En brefs chapitres qui fourmillent d'anecdotes, de faits historiques et de rencontres ou de coïncidences, Patrick Deville peint la fresque de l'extraordinaire bouillonnement révolutionnaire dont le Mexique et quelques-unes de ses villes (la capitale, mais aussi Tampico ou Cuernavaca) seront le chaudron dans les années 1930. Les deux figures majeures du roman sont Trotsky, qui poursuit là-bas sa longue fuite et y organise la riposte aux procès de Moscou tout en fondant la IVe Internationale, et Malcolm Lowry, qui ébranle l'univers littéraire avec son vertigineux Au-dessous du volcan. Le second admire le premier : une révolution politique et mondiale, ça impressionne. Mais Trotsky est lui aussi un grand écrivain, qui aurait pu transformer le monde des lettres si une mission plus vaste ne l'avait pas requis. On croise Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti, l'énigmatique B. Traven aux innombrables identités, ou encore André Breton et Antonin Artaud en quête des Tarahumaras. Une sorte de formidable danse macabre où le génie conduit chacun à son tombeau. C'est tellement mieux que de renoncer à ses rêves.

The Practical Vision

Autor: Jane Campbell , James Doyle

Número de Páginas: 180

The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy contains essays offered as a tribute on the occasion of Dr. Flora Roy’s retirement as a Canadian university teacher of English. These essays reflect the literary interests and administrative activities of Dr. Roy and demonstrate the relationship between literature and the perennial human urge to achieve understanding and control of both the subjective and objective worlds.

The Contemporary Novel

Autor: Irving Adelman , Rita Dworkin

Número de Páginas: 712

In this new edition, what was already an expansive work has been updated and further enlarged to include information not only on American and British novelists but also on writers in English from around the world.

The Lost One

Autor: Stephen D. Youngkin

Número de Páginas: 696

The first full biography of this major actor draws upon more than 300 interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor.

Literary Research and Canadian Literature

Autor: Gabriella Reznowski

Número de Páginas: 226

Canada's rich literary heritage, dominated by a multicultural and multilingual presence, reflects the country's unique history and experience. In addition, an emerging body of new writers is redefining both the geographic and metaphorical boundaries of Canadian literature. Coupled with the propagation of digital technologies, Canada's burgeoning publishing industry presents unique challenges for both the introductory and seasoned literary researcher. Literary Research and Canadian Literature: Strategies and Sources provides researchers with the tools to navigate Canada's multifaceted literary scene. This guide addresses the tools and best practices for selecting and evaluating print and electronic sources related to the extensive and varied literature of Canada. Beginning with an overview of the strategies needed to conduct online research, individual chapters examine general literary reference materials; relevant online library catalogs, including national and union library catalogs; scholarly journals; archival collections; microform and digital collections; periodicals, literary magazines, newspapers, and reviews; and Web and electronic resources. Special topics discussed...

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