Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry: A Rift in the Fabric of the World - Couverture souple

Keller-Privat, Isabelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1683930649 ISBN 13 : 9781683930648

Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell's writing, both poetic and fictional, drawing links to his novels and residence books, which he kept writing at the same time. Durrell thus appears as first and foremost one of the greatest late modernist poets whose literary and epistemological investigations are to be understood in the light of a worldwide network of literary brotherhoods including T. S. Eliot, Michael Fraenkel, Henry Miller, and David Gascoyne. Simultaneously, this book shows why Durrell must also be read as the heir to the greatest English romantic poets (Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth) as well as to the French symbolists and modernists (from Baudelaire to Nerval, Valéry, and Cendrars).This comparative approach opens up a brand new perspective on Durrell that has not yet been broached by North American and English scholarship. The symbolic patterns, the stylistic ploys, and the aesthetic and philosophic tenets that characterize Durrell's poetics account for the necessary back-and-forth reading that connects prose and poetry, the fictional and the lyrical, the descriptive and the abstract. Poetry excerpts, extracts from his residence books, novels, and essays highlight not only Durrell's complex literary strategies but also the ontological quest of a writer who, although never at home with the world he lived in, strove to create a life-world, what semiologists call the "Umwelt."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès where she teaches British literature, travel writing, poetry, and translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1683930649
• ISBN 13: 9781683930648
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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