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Book SynopsisThe Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans is an interdisciplinary investigation of the kaleidoscopic vision of international modernist writer Malcolm Lowry through an analysis of his selected literary works and correspondence. Nigel Foxcroft examines Lowry's sustained endeavors to attain psychoanalytical atonement with himself and his environment in Ultramarine, Swinging the Maelstrom, The Forest Path to the Spring, and October Ferry to Gabriola. This book also addresses the odyssey on which Lowry and his literary protagonists embark to exorcize souls from the past and gain a deeper insight into human nature in Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, La Mordida, and Through the Panama. Foxcroft analyzes how Lowry's psychogeographic perception of the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and civilizations, along with the influence of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican customs, are necessary historical dimensions of his work. This book traces Lowry''s intellectual effo
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Writer as Shaman: The Interconnectedness of East-West Cultures and Civilizations Chapter 1: Malcolm Lowry’s Modernism: Surrealist, Literary, and Political Influences Chapter 2: The Evolution of Lowry’s Intuitive Consciousness: Bridging the Shamanic Divide in Ultramarine, In Ballast to the White Sea, Swinging the Maelstrom, and The 1940 Under the Volcano Chapter 3: In Search of the Souls of Civilization: The Russian Connection in In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the Volcano Chapter 4: The Mexican Day of the Dead: Under the Volcano’s Zapotec, Aztec, and Spanish Roots Chapter 5: Exorcising the Spectres of the Past: From the Maelstrom of Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid to the Atonement of La Mordida and “Through the Panama” Chapter 6: In Pursuit of Celestial Harmony: The Pysychogeographic Ecosphere of Eridanus in “The Forest Path to the Spring” and October Ferry to Gabriola Conclusion: The Quest for the Regeneration of Civilization: A Taoist Climax
