Durrell and the city : collected essays on place / edited by Donald P. Kaczvinsky.

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Kaczvinsky, Donald P, 1960-

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TextPublication details: Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 209 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781611474541
161147454X
1283362406
9781283362405
9786613362407
6613362409

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Durrell and the city.DDC classification:

823/.912 23

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PR6007.U76 Z63 2012eb

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Machine generated contents note: I. Country and the City -- 1. Urban Flight and Rural Reception: Modernist Refuge in Panic Spring and The Dark Labyrinth / James M. Clawson -- 2. Real and Unreal Cities: The Modernist Origins of Durrell's Alexandria / James Gifford -- II. Durrell's Alexandria -- 3. Durrell's City as Interior Space: "The city begins and ends in us" / Linda Stump Rashidi -- 4. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria: The City as Nexus / Anna Lillios -- 5. Strangers in a Strange Land / Alice Bailey Cheylan -- 6. Writing (on) Walls or the Palimpsest of Time in The Alexandria Quartet / Isabelle Keller-Privat -- 7. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: A Culinary Perspective / Merrianne Timko -- III. Cities, Places, and People -- 8. From the Interior City: The White Negro Thinking in Pidgin / Paul Lorenz -- 9. "Roses, Feces and Vampires": The Carnivalesque in Durrell / Fiona Tomkinson -- 10. Reading the Ethics of Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet / Dianne Vipond -- IV. Durrell and the American Literary Landscape -- 11. "An Attention That Is Almost Holy": The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway / Matthew Nickel -- 12. Reverie of Utopia and Actuality in the City: The Cases of Justine and Blanche Dubois / Michiko Kawano -- 13. "Where the Blue Algonquin Flows": Durrell, New York, and the American "Spirit of Place" / Donald P. Kaczvinsky -- 14. Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: 50 Years Later / Alan W. Friedman.

Summary: Durrell and the City commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical understanding of all Durrell's urban landscapes, but focuses on the place that made him famous-the city of Alexandria-in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

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Durrell and the City commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical understanding of all Durrell's urban landscapes, but focuses on the place that made him famous-the city of Alexandria-in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

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