Swinging the maelstrom /

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Author / Creator:Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957, author.
Imprint:Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, [2013]
Description:1 online resource (xli, 202 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Canadian literature collection
Canadian literature collection.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12348433
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Other authors / contributors:Ackerley, Chris, 1947- writer of added commentary.
McCarthy, Patrick A., 1945- writer of added commentary.
Mota, Miguel, writer of introduction.
Tiessen, Paul, writer of added commentary.
Doyen, Vik, 1942- writer of introduction, editor.
ISBN:0776620878
9780776620879
9780776620886
0776620886
9780776620893
0776620894
9780776608020
0776608029
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199).
English.
Print version record.
Summary: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- 944).
Other form:Print version: Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957. Swinging the maelstrom. Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, [2013] 9780776608020