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Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria quartet: influences shaping his fiction.
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Art and the artists in Lawrence Durrell
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1976
Durrell, Samuel P.
No full textCarte de Visite of Private Samuel P. Durrell, 21st Maine Infantry, Company K, also 14th Maine Infantry; From the MacDonald Collectionhttps://digitalmaine.com/arc_civilwarportraits/2110/thumbnail.jp
Durrell, Samuel P.
No full textCarte de Visite of Private Samuel P. Durrell, 21st Maine Infantry, Company K, also 14th Maine Infantry; From the MacDonald Collectionhttps://digitalmaine.com/arc_civilwarportraits/2110/thumbnail.jp
The crisis of modernity : culture, nature, and the modernist yearning for authenticity
No full textThe Crisis of Modernity: Culture, Nature, and the Modernist Yearning for Authenticity This dissertation is situated at the intersection of two critical traditions: the discussion about Modernist literature in English and ecocriticism. By viewing a certain strand of literary Modernism through an ecocritical lens, it tries to offer an investigation of salient aspects that arise out of the experience of modernity. In order to stress the relevance of ecocriticism when dealing with Modernist motifs and themes, I chose authors associated with the so-called vitalistic or primitivist side of Modernism. The condemnation of technological progress, the alienation of the individual living in urbanized societies, and the fear of the widening gap of what is natural and what is cultural in ourselves inspire the work of Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, and raise important questions for ecocritical consideration. Their severe critique of western civilization suggests that for these authors modernity constitutes a crisis of culture. One of the major aims of my work is to define the crisis of modernity as an environmental crisis. To gain recognition of the environmental aspects underlying this critique of modernity, I begin my analysis by focusing on the depiction of urban contexts as a source of profound conflict. The ensuing argument will center on the notion of the pastoral, which both Miller and Durrell recognize as the traditional mode to express an urban yearning for a utopian counterpoise to civilized life. But rather than promoting an idyllic return to nature, these authors primarily seek to unmask the artificiality of the pastoral enthrallment for the natural world. Instead, they try to revitalize their contact with nature by drawing attention to the individual’s physically embodied experience of his or her immediate environment. By focusing on the body as a medium to recuperate humankind’s original affinity with nature, Miller and Durrell represent a powerful alternative to the pastoral tradition. In my final chapter I extend my ecocritical reading of Modernist literature to Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay. Barnes’s struggle with the gendered landscapes of modernity and McKay’s thematization of ethnic difference offer alternative approaches to the crisis of modernity
Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
No full textTubiana Joseph. Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons. In: L'Homme, 1965, tome 5 n°2. p. 148
La función del mito de Sabiduría en Justine de Lawrence Durrell
No full textThe reception of the first part of the Gnostic myth (the fall), which narrates the degradation of Wisdom, is analyzed in Justine, by Lawrence Durrell. As soon as the myth is installed in a permanent circularity, which makes linearity illusory, the narrator resorts to the palimpsest to express the relativity of the stories, which islinked to the investigation on modern love that the author had begun in The Quartet of Alexandria. Wisdom, in love with the perfection of the Father, tries to understand the Incomprehensible; what is expressed in the deep loneliness and grief without redemption of the characters. Durrell, in his aesthetic quest, establishes this account as Justin’s hermeneutical principle, much like how it worked for the Gnostics in regard to Scripture.Se analiza la recepción de la primera parte del mito gnóstico (la caída), que narra la degradación de Sabiduría, en Justine, de Lawrence Durrell. En cuanto el mito se instala en una circularidad permanente, que torna ilusoria la linealidad, el narrador recurre al palimpsesto para expresar la relatividad de los relatos, lo que se vincula con la investigación sobre el amor moderno que el autor realiza en El cuarteto de Alejandría. Sabiduría, presa de amor por la perfección del Padre, intenta comprender al Incomprensible; lo que se expresa en la soledad profunda y desconsuelo sin redención de los personajes. Durrell, en su búsqueda estética, establece este relato como principio hermenéutico de Justine, de modo semejante a cómo funcionaba para los gnósticos respecto de las Escrituras
C-0544: 323 West 200 North, Smithfield, Utah, Durrell W. and Hope Hyde/Grant F. and Gladys P. Teuscher residence. Lot 2 Block 13 Plat B. Built 1924
No full textC-0544: 323 West 200 North, Smithfield, Utah, Durrell W. and Hope Hyde/Grant F. and Gladys P. Teuscher residence. Lot 2 Block 13 Plat B. Built 192
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Oystercatcher specialisation : fitness implications and population consequences
No full textThe aim of this thesis was to investigate the fitness implications and the population consequences of individual feeding specialisations. In particular, it was concerned with how individual specialisations may affect the population consequences of habitat loss or change, a subject of particular relevance to conservationists. A review is made of individual feeding specialisation in shorebirds, the mechanisms involved in such specialisations and the different benefits and risks that may be associated with particular habitats or diets. Individual feeding specialisations were found to be widespread among many shorebird groups and most shorebird feeding specialisations were found to be constrained by differences in morphology, social status or individual skill It is concluded that individuals or groups that are unable to change foraging area, diet or feeding method Ar social or morphological reasons would be the most vulnerable to any deterioration in their food supply. Research into Oystercatchers Haematonus ostralecus overwintering on the Exe estuary, south-west England is presented and individual feeding specialisations described. Young birds and females specialised in different diets and feeding methods fi"om adult males. Sex ratios changed with age such that 50% of immatures and 67% of adults were male. Individual fitness was measured in terms of body condition and mortality rates of ringed birds. Mussel- hammerers, the m^ority of which were male, had higher body condition indices and lower rates of mortality than mussel-stabbers and worm/clam feeders. Worm/clam feeders, the majority of which were females and young birds, had lower body condition indices and higher rates of mortality than mussel feeders. It is suggested that young birds and females on the Exe had higher rates of winter mortality because of the lower payoffs and/or higher risks associated with their 6eding specialisations. A modelling approach is used to predict the population consequences of dif & rential mortality between age and sex groups. Increasing the mortality of young birds or 6males substantially reduced population size. Increasing female mortality resulted in a male biased population. Any increase in mortality which affected one sex more than the other resulted in a greater reduction in population size than if the increase affected both sexes the same. It is concluded that studies designed to predict the effect of habitat loss or change on shorebirds should be particularly aware of age and sex-related feeding specialisations that may lead to age and sex differences in mortality and age and sex diGkrences in resfwnse to change.</p
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