Course : Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΑΓΓΛΟΦΩΝΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ (Χ 2024-25)Ζ ΕΞ Greece in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

The Return to Myth: Durrell’s Islomania/Cretomania

Durrell, Lawrence. The Dark Labyrinth (1961; First Published as Cefalû in 1947) London: Faber and Faber, 2001.

Part I: Chapters 1-7

Secondary Readings:

Clawson, James M. “Urban Flight and Rural Reception: Modernist Refuge in Panic Spring and The Dark Labyrinth,” Durrell and the City: Reconstructing the Urban Landscape, edited by Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012, 3-11.

Video: “Islomania” in “Spirit of Place: Lawrence Durrell's Greece” (BBC Arts Documentary, dir. Peter Adam, 1975): https://patrickleighfermor.org/2019/03/23/spirit-of-place-lawrence-durrells-greece/

Link: Take a look at the latest Poem by Margaret Atwood (on the mythical labyrinth of the Minotaur included in her new book):

“Ariadne Sends a Message,” a Poem by Margaret Atwood

From Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023:

https://lithub.com/ariadne-sends-a-message-a-poem-by-margaret-atwood/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20October%2015%2C%202024&utm_term=lithub_master_list