{"product_id":"durrell-and-the-city-collected-essays-on-place-9781611474534","title":"Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDurrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his early novels to Avignon during World War II in his last great series, while focusing on the place that made him famous—the city of Alexandria—in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Abbreviations  Introduction—Donald P. Kaczvinsky  I.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  II.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  III.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  IV.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","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041686487383,"sku":"9781611474534","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611474534.jpg?v=1750951300","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/durrell-and-the-city-collected-essays-on-place-9781611474534","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}