Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell
Alexandria to Angkor Wat
Published on 12. February 2025
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-1-68393-444-8 (ISBN)
Description
Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell:Alexandria to Angkor Wat gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and heterotopian counter-spaces in Durrell's thought and writing. The volume includes studies of texts set in locations from the Mediterranean to Cambodia, with spatial focus ranging from the Egypt of The Alexandria Quartet (and of Anatole France's Thais) to the scattered locations of The Avignon Quintet, with stops along the way for the island books and other treatments of wandering and exile in poetry as well as prose. The contributors approach Durrell's texts from a variety of perspectives, philosophical and intertextual, architectural and historical, mystical and digital. In so doing, they expose the deeper echoes set off by his wide-ranging literary production and map out the metaphysical, literary, and aesthetic connections that account for Durrell's impact on our understanding of those twentieth-century social and cultural paradigms that foreshadow the disruptions of today's world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
9 b/w illustrations; 7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68393-444-8 (9781683934448)
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Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell
Alexandria to Angkor Wat
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03/2025
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
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Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell
Alexandria to Angkor Wat
E-Book
03/2025
1st Edition
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
€94.99
Available for download
Persons
Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaures where she teaches British literature, travel writing, poetry, and translation.
Anne R. Zahlan is professor emerita at Eastern Illinois University where she taught courses in twentieth-century British and postcolonial literature.
Anne R. Zahlan is professor emerita at Eastern Illinois University where she taught courses in twentieth-century British and postcolonial literature.
Content
Introduction
Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. Zahlan
Chapter One: "Here Once Lay the Body of the Great Alexander": From the Poetic Image of Alexandria to Poetic Dwelling
Ali Reza Shahbazin
Chapter Two: Faces of the Goddess: Gnostic Div(a)nity in Lawrence Durrell and Anatole France
David Melville Wingrove
Chapter Three: Lawrence Durrell and Georges Bataille: Brothers in Heresy
Luca Barbaglia and Bartolo Casiraghi
Chapter Four: Heresy in Lawrence Durrell's Heraldic Universe
Paul Lorenz
Chapter Five: A "Most Anomalous" Island: Lawrence Durrell's Writings on Patmos
Athanasios Dimakis
Chapter Six: Life in the Tomb: Lawrence Durrell's Heterotopia on the Island of Rhodes
Athena Hadji
Chapter Seven: Personalist Heterotopias: Henry Miller's Street and Lawrence Durrell's Hotel
Isabelle Keller-Privat
Chapter Eight: Postmodern Gothic: Traveling Gothic Motifs in The Avignon Quintet
Pamela J. Francis
Chapter Nine: Durrell's Buddhist Heterotopias: Mount Vulture and Angkor Wat
Fiona Tomkinson
Chapter Ten: Heterotopia and Other Places: Displacing Expectations of Theme and Style in Durrell's Travel Books
James M. Clawson
Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. Zahlan
Chapter One: "Here Once Lay the Body of the Great Alexander": From the Poetic Image of Alexandria to Poetic Dwelling
Ali Reza Shahbazin
Chapter Two: Faces of the Goddess: Gnostic Div(a)nity in Lawrence Durrell and Anatole France
David Melville Wingrove
Chapter Three: Lawrence Durrell and Georges Bataille: Brothers in Heresy
Luca Barbaglia and Bartolo Casiraghi
Chapter Four: Heresy in Lawrence Durrell's Heraldic Universe
Paul Lorenz
Chapter Five: A "Most Anomalous" Island: Lawrence Durrell's Writings on Patmos
Athanasios Dimakis
Chapter Six: Life in the Tomb: Lawrence Durrell's Heterotopia on the Island of Rhodes
Athena Hadji
Chapter Seven: Personalist Heterotopias: Henry Miller's Street and Lawrence Durrell's Hotel
Isabelle Keller-Privat
Chapter Eight: Postmodern Gothic: Traveling Gothic Motifs in The Avignon Quintet
Pamela J. Francis
Chapter Nine: Durrell's Buddhist Heterotopias: Mount Vulture and Angkor Wat
Fiona Tomkinson
Chapter Ten: Heterotopia and Other Places: Displacing Expectations of Theme and Style in Durrell's Travel Books
James M. Clawson