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Author Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957, author

Title Swinging the maelstrom / by Malcolm Lowry ; edited by Vik Doyen ; introduction by Vik Doyen & Miguel Mota ; explanatory notes by Chris Ackerley ; foreword by Patrick A. McCarthy & Paul Tiessen
Published Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xli, 202 pages) : illustrations
Series Canadian literature collection
Canadian literature collection
Contents List of illustrations -- General editor's note -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Swinging the maelstrom -- Textual notes -- Explanatory notes -- Appendix 1: The last address -- Textual notes -- Appendix 2: The manuscript record -- Works cited
Summary 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- 944)
Analysis FICTION / Literary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199)
Notes English
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Subject Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957. Swinging the maelstrom
Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957 -- Criticism, Textual
SUBJECT Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Ackerley, Chris, 1947- writer of added commentary
McCarthy, Patrick A., 1945- writer of added commentary
Mota, Miguel, writer of introduction
Tiessen, Paul, writer of added commentary
Doyen, Vik, 1942- writer of introduction, editor
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