Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell

Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès where she teaches British literature, travel writing, poetry, and translation. Anne R. Zahlan is professor emerita at Eastern Illinois University where she taught courses in twentieth-century British and postcolonial literature.

• IntroductionIsabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. ZahlanChapter One: “Here Once Lay the Body of the Great Alexander”: From the Poetic Image of Alexandria to Poetic Dwelling Ali Reza Shahbazin Chapter Two: Faces of the Goddess: Gnostic Div(a)nity in Lawrence Durrell and Anatole France David Melville Wingrove Chapter Three: Lawrence Durrell and Georges Bataille: Brothers in Heresy Luca Barbaglia and Bartolo CasiraghiChapter Four: Heresy in Lawrence Durrell’s Heraldic UniversePaul Lorenz Chapter Five: A “Most Anomalous” Island: Lawrence Durrell’s Writings on Patmos Athanasios Dimakis Chapter Six: Life in the Tomb: Lawrence Durrell’s Heterotopia on the Island of Rhodes Athena Hadji Chapter Seven: Personalist Heterotopias: Henry Miller’s Street and Lawrence Durrell’s Hotel Isabelle Keller-Privat Chapter Eight: Postmodern Gothic: Traveling Gothic Motifs in The Avignon Quintet Pamela J. Francis Chapter Nine: Durrell’s Buddhist Heterotopias: Mount Vulture and Angkor WatFiona Tomkinson Chapter Ten: Heterotopia and Other Places: Displacing Expectations of Theme and Style in Durrell’s Travel BooksJames M. Clawson