Swinging the Maelstrom : A Critical Edition (Canadian Literature Collection)

Lowry, Malcolm/ Doyen, Vik (EDT)/ McCarthy, Patrick A. (FRW)

University of Ottawa Press（2013/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780776608020
• DDC分類 823.912

Full Description

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).

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 Contributors