Swinging the Maelstrom

Name: Swinging the Maelstrom
Brand: University of Ottawa Press
SKU: 9780776620893
Price: 12.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-0-776-62089-3

A Critical Edition

de Malcolm Lowry (auteur), Vik Doyen (éditeur), Miguel Mota (introduction), Chris Ackerley (notes)

Maison d'édition : University of Ottawa Press

novembre 2013

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Résumé

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry.

This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom, 1942–1944).

Published in English.

Auteur

Malcolm Lowry (auteur)

Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) est un poète et romancier britannique considéré comme l'une des voix majeures de la littérature anglo-saxonne au xxe siècle. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs romans et poèmes, certains inachevés, et du chef-d'œuvre incontesté Sous le Volcan.
Vik Doyen (Edité par)

Vik Doyen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He did archival research in the Malcolm Lowry Collection at the University of British Columbia for his doctoral dissertation.
Miguel Mota (Introduction de)

Miguel Mota is an associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He has published on numerous 20th-century and contemporary writers and filmmakers, including Malcolm Lowry, Derek Jarman, Jeanette Winterson and Mike Leigh.
Chris Ackerley (Notes de)

Chris Ackerley is a professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focus is modernism, and his speciality is annotation, especially of the writings of Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett.