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Gnosticism in Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur: New Textual Evidence for Source Materials
- Author(s):
- James Gifford (see profile) , Stephen Osadetz
- Date:
- 2004
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TM Literary Criticism
- Subject(s):
- British literature, Literature, Modern, Religion
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- british literature, modernism, Modern literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M60899
- Abstract:
- Previous scholarship on source materials for Lawrence Durrell’s Gnostic themes in Monsieur are insufficient in light of his marginalia in Serge Hutin’s Les Gnostiques and his notebooks for the novel. We contend that archival evidence from the Bibliothèque Lawrence Durrell in Nanterre, France, necessitates a reevaluation of previous work in order to account for the combination of Hutin’s approach to Gnosticism and newspaper clippings in the notebook, which recast the nature of the Gnostic suicide cult that provides the impetus for the plot of the novel.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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