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