Swinging the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry

✍ Scribed by Sherrill E Grace

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Swinging the Maelstrom is a collection of new critical essays on the work and life of Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957). An international group of literary critics and artists examines a wide range of Lowry's work from the diverse perspectives of biography, correspondence, translation, manuscript editing, poetry, and inter-artistic comparison, including a number of investigations of his masterpiece, Under the Volcano, and his post-Volcano fiction.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Frontispiece: El Anís del Consul
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Editions
Putting Lowry in Perspective: An Introduction
PART ONE: LOWRY AND THE FICTION OF LIFE
Not with a Bang
"A Norwegian at Heart": Lowry and the Grieg Connection
"Nordahl Grieg, I greet you!"
Lowry and the Aesthetics of Salvation
PART TWO: UNDER THE VOLCANO
Genus Floridum: Translating Under the Volcano
Praxis as Prophylaxis: A Political Reading of Under the Volcano
Revision and Illusion in Under the Volcano
The Consul as Communicator: The Voice under the Volcano
The Volcano of a Postmodern Lowry
The Uses of Intertextuality in Under the Volcano
PART THREE: IN THE SHADOW OF THE VOLCANO
The Road to Renewal: Dark as the Grave and the Rite of Initiation
From Innocent Story to Charon's Boat: Reading the "October Ferry" Manuscripts
Hear us O Lord and Lowry's Micro/Macro Text
The Emergence of an Authorial Figure in the Manuscripts of Lowry's Poetry
Under the Shadow of the Volcano: Malcolm Lowry's Poetry
PART FOUR: SWINGING THE MAELSTROM: AN APOSTROPHE
Lowry, Jazz, and "The Day of the Dead"
Hear us O Lord and the Orpheus Occasion
Contributors
Index
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