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Remaking the Voyage

New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and 'In Ballast to the White Sea'

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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An Open Access edition of this book is available on theLiverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.‘Whoever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel ofthe 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to theWhite Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLSThis book breaks new ground in studies of the Britishnovelist Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), as the first collection of new essaysproduced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition ofLowry’s ‘lost’ novel, In Ballast to theWhite Sea. In their introduction, editors Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggsshow how the publication of In Ballastsheds new light on Lowry as both a highly political writer and one deeplyinfluenced by his native Merseyside, as his protagonist SigbjørnHansen-Tarnmoor walks the streets of Liverpool, wrestling with his ownconscience and with pressing questions of class, identity and socialreform. In the chapters that follow, renowned Lowryscholars and newer voices explore key aspects of the novel and its relation tothe wider contexts of Lowry’s work. These include his complex relation to socialismand communism, the symbolic value of Norway, and thesignificance of tropes of loss, hauntings and doublings. The book draws on theunexpected opportunity offered by the rediscovery of In Ballast to look afresh at Lowry’s oeuvre, to ‘remake the voyage’.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-01
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiverpool English Texts and Studies
Antal sidor256
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781789621839

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Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, editor and lecturer. Originally from Leicestershire, she has lived in Liverpool since 2000. She teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Bryan Biggs has worked at Bluecoat, Liverpool’s contemporary arts centre, for over four decades, curating numerous exhibitions, and live art programmes. In 2017 he directed Bluecoat’s tercentenary year. He writes on contemporary culture and is co-editor, with Julie Sheldon of Art in a City Revisited (Liverpool University Press, 2009) and, with John Belchem, of Liverpool City of Radicals (Liverpool University Press, 2011).

IntroductionHelen Tookey and Bryan BiggsHaunted by Books: Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine and In Ballast to the White SeaPatrick A. McCarthy‘We’ve got a bastard duke on board’: Class, Fantasy and Politics in Malcolm LowryBen ClarkeMalcolm Lowry and the End of CommunismMark CrawfordIn Ballast to the White Sea: The Springboard for Russian Influences on Malcolm Lowry’s Visionary Intellect Nigel H. FoxcroftIn Ballast to the White Sea: A Plunge into the MatrixAnnick Drösdal-LevillainWalking with Shadows: Index, Inscription and Event in Malcolm Lowry’s In Ballast to the White SeaCian Quayle‘Hva vet vi?’: In Ballast to the White Sea and the Weighting of EvidenceChris Ackerley Identity and Doubles: Being and Writing in Malcolm Lowry’s In Ballast to the White SeaPierre SchaefferThe Lost Other: Malcolm Lowry’s Creative ProcessCatherine Delesalle-NanceyInfernal Discourse: Narrative Poetics among the Ashes of In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the VolcanoChristopher Madden‘Leaning forward eagerly’: Malcolm Lowry’s Moviegoers and In Ballast to the White Sea Miguel Mota and Paul TiessenFrom In Ballast to the White Sea to Rumbo al Mar Blanco: The Spanish Reception of Malcolm Lowry’s Unfinished NovelAlberto Lena‘Glimpses of Immortality’: Our Voyages with Vik DoyenSherrill Grace

‘Remaking the Voyage makes a major contribution to Lowry studies, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strength of the academic contributors. It genuinely advances humanistic knowledge of Lowry’s In Ballast, additionally offering an intriguing identity politics argument or interpretive nexus, comprising cultural and geographical location, class and political awareness/affiliation.’- Professor Richard J. Lane, Vancouver Island University