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Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition

Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition

Lowry, Malcolm
Doyen, Vik
Mota, Miguel

Paperback

Series: Canadian Literature Collection

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0776608029
ISBN13: 9780776608020
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: Nov 28 2013
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

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.

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