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Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry - Souls and Shamans

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This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of Malcolm Lowry's literary works and correspondence. Foxcroft examines Lowry's attempts to reintegrate international modernism with primitivism through the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and to attain cosmic harmony by bridging the natural sciences and the humanities.

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Introduction: 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


Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nigel H. Foxcroft is senior lecturer of English literature, Russian studies, and European studies at the University of Brighton.

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This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of Malcolm Lowry's literary works and correspondence. Foxcroft examines Lowry's attempts to reintegrate international modernism with primitivism through the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and to attain cosmic harmony by bridging the natural sciences and the humanities.

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