A darkness that murmured
Subtitle: essays on Malcolm Lowry and the twentieth century
By: edited and with an introduction by Frederick Asals and Paul Tiessen.
Contributors: Asals, Frederick.; Tiessen, Paul.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "With the publication of Under the Volcano, Lowry became a cult hero in literary circles on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection explores the life of the man - including memoirs by people Lowry knew at important stages of his life - and offers critical insight into his writings. The writing discussed includes his novels and poetry, as well as three letters written when he was a schoolboy and undergraduate, and two that he wrote in the last months of his troubled life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Three letters home / Sherrill Grace; title: Charlotte Haldane and Malcolm Lowry / Judith Adamson; title: With Alfred H. Mendes in New York, 1936 / Michèle Levy; title: With Malcolm Lowry in Mexico / Jan Gabrial; title: 'To us he was, always, "Malc"' : a reminiscence / William C. McConnell; title: 'Destroy the world!' : gnosis and nihilism in Under the volcano / Pierre Schaeffer; title: Genius and degeneration in Under the volcano / Martin Bock; title: Ultramarine, the class war, and British travel writing in the 1930's / Patrick Deane; title: 'We simply made one up' : the hybrid text of 'Tender is the night' / Miguel Mota; title: Recuperating authority : plagiarism as pastiche? / Cynthia Sugars; title: Malcolm Lowry's unimaginable library of the dead / Chris Ackerley; title: The operatic paradigm : voice, sound, and meaning in Lowry's fiction / Mathieu Duplay; title: Totality and fragmentation in Lowry and Joyce / Patrick A. McCarthy; title: A poetics of fire : Sharon Thesen's Confabulations : poems for Malcolm Lowry / Dean Irvine; title: From black magic to white noise : Malcolm Lowry and Don DeLillo / Margaret Soltan; title: The play's the thing : reading 'Lowry' in the dark wood of Freud, Cocteau, and Barthes / Sherrill Grace.