From the elephant's back : collected essays & travel writings / / Lawrence Durrell ; edited and with an introduction by James Gifford

• Autore: Durrell Lawrence
• Pubblicazione: Edmonton, Alberta : , : The University of Alberta Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Disciplina: 828.91209
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
• Persona (resp. second.): GiffordJames <1974->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction | James Gifford; From the Elephant's Back; Personal Positions; A Letter from the Land of the Gods; Airgraph on Refugee Poets in Africa; No Clue to Living; This Magnetic, Bedevilled Island That Tugs at My Heart; Lamas in a French Forest; Ideas about Literature; The Prince and Hamlet: A Diagnosis; Hamlet, Prince of China; Prospero's Isle: To Caliban; Ideas About Poems; Ideas About Poems II; The Heraldic Universe; Hellene and Philhellene; A Cavafy Find; A Real Heart Transplant into English ; Introduction to WordsworthL'amour, Clef du Mystère?; Eternal Contemporaries; Theatre: Sense and Sensibility; The Happy Rock; Studies in Genius VI: Groddeck; Constant Zarian: Triple Exile; Enigma Variations; The Shades of Dylan Thomas; Bernard Spencer; The Other Eliot; Richard Aldington; On George Seferis; Poets Under the Bed; Spirit of Place: Travel Writing; Corfu: Isle of Legend; The Island of the Rose; Can Dreams Live on When Dreamers Die?; Family Portrait; Letter in the Sofa; The Moonlight of Your Smile; The Poetic Obsession of Dublin; Borromean Isles; Alexandria Revisited ; With Durrell in EgyptWorks Cited; Index; About the Author and Editor; Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press
• Sommario/riassunto: "...the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." -Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century Modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries-aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these thirty-eight previously unpublished and out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell's maturation as an artist was rich, complex, and subtle. Durrell fans will treasure this selection of rare nonfiction, while scholars of Durrell, Modernist literature, anti-authoritarian artists, and the Personalist movement will also appreciate Gifford's fine editorial work. "Gifford's scholarly command of the archives shows-especially his working intimacy with the unpublished archived words of Durrell's editors, publishers, and collaborators. I have no doubt that this collection will serve as a starting point for any number of new critical ventures into the life and writing of Lawrence Durrell." -Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Titolo autorizzato: From the elephant's back
• ISBN: 1-77212-061-8; 1-77212-059-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823784403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II