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edition:Paperback
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category: Literary Criticism
published: Nov 2013
ISBN:9780776608020
publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
imprint: University of Ottawa Press

Swinging the Maelstrom

A Critical Edition

by Malcolm Lowry, edited by Vik Doyen, introduction by Miguel Mota, notes by Chris Ackerley

tagged: canadian, literary
Description

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry.
This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom, 1942–1944).
Published in English.

About the Authors

Malcolm Lowry


Vik Doyen


Miguel Mota


Chris Ackerley

Contributor Notes

Vik Doyen is Professor Emeritus and former vice-dean of the Arts Faculty and head of the English Department at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He did archival research in the Malcolm Lowry Collection at the University of British Columbia for his doctoral dissertation.

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