Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell

<P><I>Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell</I> gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and heterotopian counter-spaces in Durrell''s thought and writing. The volume includes studies of texts set in locations from the Mediterranean to Cambodia, with spatial focus ranging from the Egypt of <I>The Alexandria Quartet</I> (and of Anatole France''s <I>Thaïs)</I> to the scattered locations of <I>The Avignon Quintet</I>, with stops along the way for the island books and other treatments of wandering and exile in poetry as well as prose. The contributors approach Durrell''s texts from a variety of perspectives, philosophical and intertextual, architectural and historical, mystical and digital. In so doing, they expose the deeper echoes set off by his wide-ranging literary production and map out the metaphysical, literary, and aesthetic connections that account for Durrell''s impact on our understanding of those twentieth-century social and cultural paradigms that foreshadow the disruptions of today''s world.</P>