Remaking the Voyage : : new essays on Malcolm Lowry and In ballast to the White Sea / / Edited by Helen Tookey, Bryan Biggs.

• Superior document: Liverpool English texts and studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Biggs, Bryan,; Tookey, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2020.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Liverpool English texts and studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages).

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. 'Who ever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry's fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didn't' - Michael Hofmann, TLS This book breaks new ground in studies of the British novelist Malcolm Lowry (1909-57), as the first collection of new essays produced in response to the publication in 2014 of a scholarly edition of Lowry's 'lost' novel, In Ballast to the White Sea. In their introduction, editors Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs show how the publication of In Ballast sheds new light on Lowry as both a highly political writer and one deeply influenced by his native Merseyside, as his protagonist Sigbjørn Hansen-Tarnmoor walks the streets of Liverpool, wrestling with his own conscience and with pressing questions of class, identity and social reform. In the chapters that follow, renowned Lowry scholars and newer voice ... Publisher description.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs -- Haunted by Books: Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine and In Ballast to the White Sea -- Patrick A. McCarthy'We've got a bastard duke on board': Class, Fantasy and Politics in Malcolm Lowry -- Ben ClarkeMalcolm Lowry and the End of Communism -- Mark Crawford -- In Ballast to the White Sea: The Springboard for Russian Influences on Malcolm Lowry's Visionary Intellect Nigel H. Foxcroft -- In Ballast to the White Sea: A Plunge into the Matrix -- Annick Drösdal-Levillain -- Walking 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 Evidence -- Chris Ackerley Identity and Doubles: Being and Writing in Malcolm Lowry's In Ballast to the White Sea -- Pierre Schaeffer -- The Lost Other: Malcolm Lowry's Creative ProcessCatherine Delesalle-Nancey -- Infernal Discourse: Narrative Poetics among the Ashes of In Ballast to the White Sea and Under the Volcano -- Christopher Madden'Leaning forward eagerly': Malcolm Lowry's Moviegoers and In Ballast to the White Sea Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen -- From In Ballast to the White Sea to Rumbo al Mar Blanco: The Spanish Reception of Malcolm Lowry's Unfinished Novel -- Alberto Lena'Glimpses of Immortality': Our Voyages with Vik Doyen -- Sherrill Grace.