Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell

Alexandria to Angkor Wat
Herausgeber: Zahlan, Anne R; Keller-Privat, Isabelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell examines heretical elements in Durrell's thought and writings and Foucauldian explorations of his treatments of place and space. It links Lawrence Durrell's fiction, travel writing, and poetry in offering new theoretical appreciations of Durrell's response to orthodox epistemologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press Copublishing Division
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781683934448
• ISBN-10: 168393444X
• Artikelnr.: 72028429

Autorenporträt

Edited by Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. Zahlan - Contributions by Luca Barbaglia; Bartolo Casiraghi; James M. Clawson; Athanasios Dimakis; Pamela J. Francis; Athena Hadji; Isabelle Keller-Privat; Paul Lorenz; Ali Reza Shahbazin; Fiona Tomkinson; Davi

Inhaltsangabe

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