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Donald P. Kaczvinsky is the George E. Pankey Eminent Scholar in English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Louisiana Tech University. He has written extensively on twentieth-century British literature, including articles on James Joyce, Alasdair Gray, Graham Swift, and especially Lawrence Durrell. He is ex-president of the International Lawrence Durrell Society.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction—Donald P. Kaczvinsky
- The Country and the City
Chapter 1: "Rural Reception in Panic Spring and The Dark Labyrinth" —James M. Clawson
Chapter 2: “Real and Unreal Cities: The Modernist Origins of Durrell’s Alexandria" —James Gifford
- Durrell’s Alexandria: Reconstructing the City of the Soma
Chapter 3: “'The City Begins and Ends in Us': Durrell's City as Interior Space" —Linda Stump-Rashidi
Chapter 4: "Alexandria: The City as Nexus" —Anna Lillios
Chapter 5: "Strangers in a Strange Land" —Alice Bailey Cheylan
Chapter 6: "Writing (on) Walls or the Palimpsest of Time in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet" —Corinne Alexandre-Garner and Isabelle Keller-Privat
Chapter 7: Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: A Culinary Perspective —Merrianne Timko
- Cities, Places, and People
Chapter 8: "From the Interior City: The White Negro Thinking in Pidgin" —Paul Lorenz
Chapter 9: "Roses, Faeces and Vampires: The Carnivalesque in Durrell" —Fiona Tomkinson
Chapter 10: "Reading the Ethics of Durrell's Avignon Quintet" —Dianne Vipond
- Durrell and the American Literary Landscape
Chapter 11: "'An Attention That Is Almost Holy': The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway" —Matthew Nickel
Chapter 12: "Reverie of Utopia and Actuality in the City: The Cases of Justine and Blanche DuBois" —Michiko Kawano
Chapter 13: "'Where the Blue Algonquin Flows': Durrell, New York and the American ‘Spirit of Place’" —Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Chapter 14: "Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: 50 Years Later" —Alan Warren Friedman
Bibliography
About the Contributors