Durrell Re-read: Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels By James M. Clawson Hardcover 1611478464 9781611478464 Durrell Re read: Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrells Major Novels Reading the twelve major novels of Lawrence Durrell, this study argues for their consideration as a single major project, an opus, marked by themes of liminality and betweenness. As major texts of mid twentieth century literature, repeatedly earning nominations for the Nobel Prize, Durrell’s work has attracted renewed critical attention since his centenary in 2012. This study shows the thematic unity of the opus in five areas. First, by disrupting expectations of love and death and by fashioning plural narrators, works in the opus blend notions of the subject and the object. Second, in their use of metafictional elements, the texts present themselves as neither fiction nor reality. Third, their approach to place and identity offers something between the naturalistic and the human centric. Fourth, though the texts’ initial concerns are engaged with understanding the past and preparing for a future, they all resolve in something like the present. And fifth, though the novels reject many aspects of modernism, they reside nevertheless between the poles of modernism and postmodernism. Shared with other writers, including T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller, as early as the 1940s, Durrell’s plans for his major works of fiction remained consistent through the publication of the last novel in 1985, and these plans show the need to consider the twelve major works as a unitary whole.

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Reading the twelve major novels of Lawrence Durrell this study argues for their consideration as a single major project an opus marked by themes of liminality and betweenness As major texts of mid twentieth century literature repeatedly earning nominations for the Nobel Prize Durrell s work has attracted renewed critical attention since his centenary in 2012 This study shows the thematic unity of the opus in five areas First by disrupting expectations of love and death and by fashioning plural narrators works in the opus blend notions of the subject and the object Second in their use of metafictional elements the texts present themselves as neither fiction nor reality Third their approach to place and identity offers something between the naturalistic and the human centric Fourth though the texts initial concerns are engaged with understanding the past and preparing for a future they all resolve in something like the present And fifth though the novels reject many aspects of modernism they reside nevertheless between the poles of modernism and postmodernism Shared with other writers including T. EPub Durrell re-read S Eliot and Henry Miller as early as the 1940s Durrell s plans for his major works of fiction remained consistent through the publication of the last novel in 1985 and these plans show the need to consider the twelve major works as a unitary whole Durrell Re read Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrell s Major NovelsSeveral Durrell studies sought the whole but Clawson reveals something new what produces the wholeness of Durrell s opus Durrell described Alexandria as a hybrid a joint which tells us of Durrell than Egypt The wholeness of Durrell s works comes from this liminality the joints that connect difference in a general arthrology Clawson s conclusion is inescapable and important to modern British literature widely conceived that Durrell s coherence lies not in continuity but in the contiguity of liminal moments of transition Durrell Re read Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrell s Major Novels

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