Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje

by Marilyn Adler Papayanis

Overview

Looking closely at a group of writers who rejected the industrial West in favor of the expatriate life and made that quest the subject of their work, Marilynn Papayanis reveals their concerns to be ethical as well as aesthetic. Her book brims with fresh insights into such works as Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826514691
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	01/21/2005
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

A former attorney, Marilyn Adler Papayanis received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and teaches English at Montclair State University. She was named the winner of the 2001 Durrell Prize for New Scholarship.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 The Ethics of Expatriation

2 LawrenceDurrell and the Poet(h)ics of Imperialism

3 Italy's Best Gift: D.H. Lawrence in the Mediterranean

4 The Dark Dream: Paul Bowles and the Quest for Non-Sense

5 Modern Expatriates and Postmodern Expatriate Narrative

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

. . . this sophisticated study will be of keen interest to scholars of writers discussed and to anyone pursuing study of expatriation and travel.
—Choice

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