A foremost expert presents original essays on Lawrence Durrell, author of *The Alexandria Quartet*. This volume explores his private notebooks, early literary connections with Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, and new insights into his mental states, politics, and sexual orientation.
Richard Pine
Author's books
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?
The Eye of the Xenos, Letters about Greece (Durrell Studies 3)
This trenchant and passionate analysis of Greek life addresses the economic collapse, refugee crisis, and bureaucracy. Believing one cannot love Greece without mourning its flaws, the author presents a selection of his columns, including some a newspaper refused to print.
Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.