Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell 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 Thaļs) 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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Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell examines heretical elements in Durrells thought and writings and Foucauldian explorations of his treatments of place and space. It links Lawrence Durrells fiction, travel writing, and poetry in offering new theoretical appreciations of Durrells response to orthodox epistemologies.
Introduction
Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. Zahlan
Chapter One: Here Once Lay the Body of the Great Alexander: From the Poetic
Image of Alexandria to Poetic Dwelling
Ali Reza Shahbazin
Chapter Two: Faces of the Goddess: Gnostic Div(a)nity in Lawrence Durrell and
Anatole France
David Melville Wingrove
Chapter Three: Lawrence Durrell and Georges Bataille: Brothers in Heresy
Luca Barbaglia and Bartolo Casiraghi
Chapter Four: Heresy in Lawrence Durrells Heraldic Universe
Paul Lorenz
Chapter Five: A Most Anomalous Island: Lawrence Durrells Writings on
Patmos
Athanasios Dimakis
Chapter Six: Life in the Tomb:Lawrence Durrells Heterotopia on the Island of
Rhodes
Athena Hadji
Chapter Seven: Personalist Heterotopias: Henry Millers Street and Lawrence
Durrells Hotel
Isabelle Keller-Privat
Chapter Eight: Postmodern Gothic: Traveling Gothic Motifs in The Avignon
Quintet
Pamela J. Francis
Chapter Nine: Durrells Buddhist Heterotopias: Mount Vulture and Angkor Wat
Fiona Tomkinson
Chapter Ten: Heterotopia and Other Places: Displacing Expectations of Theme
and Style in Durrells Travel Books
James M. Clawson
Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor at the University Toulouse Jean Jaurčs where she teaches British literature, travel writing, poetry, and translation.
Anne R. Zahlan is professor emerita at Eastern Illinois University where she teaches courses in twentieth-century British and post-colonial literature.
