Lawrence Durrell and the Greek world / edited by Anna Lillios.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lillios, Anna, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durrell, Lawrence--Knowledge and learning--Greece.

Durrell, Lawrence.

English fiction--Greek influences.

English fiction.

Greece.

Greece--In literature.

Hellenism in literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

336 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Selinsgrove, [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2004]

Contents:

Reminiscences

Corfu 2000 / Penelope Durrell Hope 33

Margaret Durrell Remembers ...: A Dialogue on Corfu / Susan MacNiven, Ian MacNiven 36

Remembering the Poets: Translating Seferis with Durrell and Bernard Spencer / Nanos Valaoritis 46

Corfu

An Unpublished Letter of Durrell to Marie Aspioti / Panos Karagiorgos 57

The Discovery of Yourself: Lawrence Durrell and Gostan Zarian in Greece / David Stephen Calonne 62

Alexandria

The Secret History of Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet: The Mountolive-Hosnani Affair, Britain, and the Wafd / Mike Diboll 79

"The old poet of the city": Cavafy in Darley's Alexandria / Anthony Hirst 106

The Alexandrian Mirages of Durrell and Cavafy / Anna Lillios 120

Soundscapes, Smellscapes, and Cityscapes in The Alexandria Quartet / Jack Stewart 129

Rhodes

Durrell on Rhodes / John Leatham 145

Cyprus

Memories of Durrell / Penelope Tremayne 153

Colonial Encounters: Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons of Cyprus / Petra Tournay 158

"Lawrence Durrell, the Bitterest Lemon?": Cyps and Brits Loving Each Other to Death in Cyprus, 1953-57 / Vangelis Calotychos 169

Durrell and Myth

COMING TO MEDUSA: From desire to fear, and from love to disgust. Glosses on Durrell's discourse on modern love / Corinne Alexandre-Garner 191

"Something harder": The Discovery of Self Through Greece, Fable, and Fairy Tale / Pauline Beard 203

Multiple Truths and Multiple Narratives: Nietzsche's Perspectivalism and the Narrative Structure of The Alexandria Quartet / John M. Rose 215

Durrell and Others

Lawrence Durrell and the Greek Poets: A Contribution to Cultural History / Marios Byron Raizis 241

Two Mad-Dog Englishmen in the Corfu Sun: Lawrence Durrell and Edward Lear / John Maynard 255

"More than a Fascination with the Divine Marquis": John Fowles's The Magus and Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet / Patrick Quinn 270

Greek Inspirations

Prospero's Cell: A Meditation on Place / H. R. Stoneback 285

Durrell's Ode to the Olive / Jane Keller 298

A Grecian Turn: Poems from Corfu / David Radavich 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-326) and index.

ISBN:

1575910764

OCLC:

52251159