Sherrill Grace shows how Malcolm Lowry’s theme of a cyclical pattern of initiation, repeated ordeals with failure and retreat, followed by success and development, which in turn gave way to fresh defeat, influenced the structure, narrative style, and the symbolic pattern in his writing. The author also includes an appendix in which she examines the elements of Conrad Aiken’s fiction and prose that had a significant impact on Lowry’s work.
Sherrill E. Grace is an associate professor in the department of English at the University of British Columbia.
Acknowledgments
Note on Editions and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Voyage That Never Ends
2 Outward Bound: Early Stories, Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic
3 The Luminous Wheel: Under the Volcano
4 Withdrawal and Return: "La Mordida" and Dark as the Grave
5 Beginning Yet Again: October Ferry to Gabriola
6 Symbols of Tenuous Order: Hear Us O Lord Conclusion
Apendix: Conrad Aiken
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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