Writing in the margins : the ethics of expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje / Marilyn Adler Papayanis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papayanis, Marilyn Adler, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Foreign influences.

English literature.

Expatriation in literature.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Knowledge and learning--Mediterranean Region.

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

American literature.

Americans--Foreign countries.

History.

Mediterranean Region.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Americans--Foreign countries--History--20th century.

Americans.

British--Foreign countries--History--20th century.

British.

British--Foreign countries.

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999--Knowledge and learning--Morocco.

Bowles, Paul.

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.

Morocco.

American literature--Foreign influences.

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

Durrell, Lawrence.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xv, 277 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Looking closely at a group of writers who rejected the industrial West in favor of the expatriate life and made that quest the subject of their work, Marilynn Papayanis reveals their concerns to be ethical as well as aesthetic. Her book brims with fresh insights into such works as Paul Bowless The Sheltering Sky, Lawrence Durrells The Alexandria Quartet, and Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.

ISBN:

0826514685

0826514693

OCLC:

56103721