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100 1 $aGrace, Sherrill,$d1944-
245 10 $aStrange comfort :$bessays on the work of Malcolm Lowry /$cSherrill Grace.
260 $aVancouver :$bTalonbooks,$c2009.
300 $a223 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $a"The voyage that never ends" (1982) -- Outward bound (1976) -- Beginning yet again : October ferry to Gabriola (1982) -- "The daily crucifixtion of the post" : ending and theorizing the Lowery letters (1989) -- "A sound of singing" : polyphony and narrative decentring in Malcom Lowery's Hear Us O Lord (1990) -- Respecting plagiarism : tradtion, guilt, and Malcom Lowery's "Pelagiarist Pen" (1992) -- Ut pictura poesis : from Alberto Gironella to Malcom Lowery (1994) -- Midsummer madness and the day of the dead : Joyce, Lowery, and expressionism (1997) -- Malcom Lowery : from the juvenilia to the volcano (1999) -- The play's the thing : reading Lowery in the dark wood of Freud, Cocteau, and Barthes (2000) -- Lowery, Debussy, and under the volcano (2001) -- Remembering tomorrow : Lowery, war, and under the volcano (2009).
520 1 $a"Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace's many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work. These are essays on Lowry's masterwork Under the Volcano, on some of his lesser known stories and letters, and on his most important themes: endless voyaging, the creative role and identity of the artist, the nightmare of history, the pressures of memory, and the urgent need to protect the garden of our world. A visionary, Lowry prophetically addressed the dominant issues of our twenty-first century. Here Dr. Grace explores his disturbing vision of the devastating impact of perpetual war, only one of many of Lowry's preoccupations, and establishes that in many respects, Malcolm Lowry was an environmentalist avant la lettre, commenting on his vision of the natural world as an escape from the horror "of existence as sold to you."" "The title, Strange Comfort, comes from a Lowry short story called" Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession." Grace's essays illustrate some of the ways in which Lowry found comfort in the world of art, of other writers, and the landscape of his beloved Dollarton, B.C. Malcolm Lowry was in many ways a British writer, but his spiritual home - his creative comfort - surrounded him on the beach at Dollarton. 2009 marks the centenary of Lowry's birth and this book of essays, old and new, celebrates Lowry's deep and enduring relevance for our times."--Jacket.
600 10 $aLowry, Malcolm,$d1909-1957$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 16 $aLowry, Malcolm,$d1909-1957$vCritique et interprétation.
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