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.”
General
| Imprint: |
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Authors: |
Isabelle Keller-Privat
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
338 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-68393-064-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-68393-064-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781683930648 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
bundle available
