Forests of symbols : world, text & self in Malcolm Lowry's fiction

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Forests of symbols : world, text & self in Malcolm Lowry's fiction

Patrick A. McCarthy

University of Georgia Press, c1994

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index

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This study looks at Lowry's work, examining the ways in which acts of reading, writing and interpretation define his characters, and also at how they threaten those characters' sense of a coherent identity. The Consul in ""Under the Volcano"" is seen to embody Lowry's own anxiety.

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