Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell
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Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell

Alexandria to Angkor Wat

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  2. English
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Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell

Alexandria to Angkor Wat

About this book

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 ThaĆÆs) 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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Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Here Once Lay the Body of the Great Alexander: From Poetic Imagination to Dwelling in Alexandria
  7. Chapter 2: Faces of the Goddess: Gnostic Div(a)nity in Lawrence Durrell and Anatole France
  8. Chapter 3: Lawrence Durrell and Georges Bataille: Brothers in Heresy
  9. Chapter 4: Heresy in Lawrence Durrellā€™s Heraldic Universe
  10. Chapter 5: A ā€œMost Anomalousā€ Island: Lawrence Durrellā€™s Writings on Patmos
  11. Chapter 6: Life in the Tomb: Lawrence Durrellā€™s Heterotopia on the Island of Rhodes
  12. Chapter 7: Personalist Heterotopias: Henry Millerā€™s Street and Lawrence Durrellā€™s Hotel
  13. Chapter 8: Gothic-Postmodernism: Heterotopic Spaces in The Avignon Quintet
  14. Chapter 9: Durrellā€™s Buddhist Heterotopias: Mount Vulture and Angkor Wat
  15. Chapter 10: Heterotopia and Other Places: Displacing Expectations of Theme and Style in Durrellā€™s Travel Books
  16. Index
  17. About the Editors
  18. About the Contributors