From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 18:20:19 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:20:19 -0600 Subject: [ilds] Tunc and Nunquam Message-ID: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> Hello all, I thought this might be of interest. Best, James --------------- Blog: Anderson Brown's Literary Blog Post: Aut Tunc, aut Nunquam Link: http://andersonbrownliterary.blogspot.com/2008/08/aut-tunc-aut-nunquam.html From billyapt at hotmail.com Tue Aug 5 06:20:50 2008 From: billyapt at hotmail.com (William Apt) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:20:50 -0500 Subject: [ilds] QUESTION In-Reply-To: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> Message-ID: In REFLECTIONS ON A MARINE VENUS, on page 70, I believe, Durrell describes a church service on Patmos as culminating in a "anna livia plurabelle" moment. I am unable to determine what he means. The only reference I can locate is that Anna Livia Plurabelle is a character in FINNEGAN'S WAKE. I don't feel guilty not having read FINNEGAN'S WAKE, though, as I once read Henry Miller quoted as saying that only scholars can get through it... So, perhaps one of you scholars can help me! WILLIAM APT Austin, Texas > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:20:19 -0600> From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca> Subject: [ilds] Tunc and Nunquam> > Hello all,> > I thought this might be of interest.> > Best,> James> > ---------------> > Blog: Anderson Brown's Literary Blog> Post: Aut Tunc, aut Nunquam> Link: > http://andersonbrownliterary.blogspot.com/2008/08/aut-tunc-aut-nunquam.html> _______________________________________________> ILDS mailing list> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca> https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds _________________________________________________________________ Got Game? Win Prizes in the Windows Live Hotmail Mobile Summer Games Trivia Contest http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergames?ocid=TXT_TAGHM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20080805/9d124896/attachment.html From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 08:34:14 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:34:14 -0600 Subject: [ilds] QUESTION In-Reply-To: References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> Message-ID: <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> Hello William, I'm afraid I can't answer your question, but I can throw a few other things into the pot -- perhaps others can say more. Durrell did lecture on Joyce during his trip to California, and "anna livia plurabelle" was a part of that lecture. Moreover, for /Finnegans Wake/, Miller was very nasty about Joyce in his book on Lawrence (published in 1980, I believe, but written during his years in Paris), yet there's an entire paragraph of /Finnegans Wake/ in Miller's /Tropic of Cancer/, lifted verbatim. It's a particularly odd passage, so it's impossible Miller did it accidentally, nor does it come across as a 'good' moment so it seems unlikely to have been taken because Miller thought it a very fine passage -- it looks much more like a veiled allusion, but I must admit I don't know how it functions. Durrell, in contrast, liked Joyce more than Miller claims to have. Note that /Pied Piper of Lovers/ moves to a letter by the protagonist rather than the bildungsroman 3rd person narrator (much like /Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/) and that /Clea/ ends with the same words /Portrait/ opens with, "Once upon a time..." There's more as well. Durrell certainly read, admired, and alluded to Joyce regularly. You might want to take a look at just the "Anna Livia Purabelle" moment in /Wake/, and it is available separately since Joyce first published it on its own. Best, James William Apt wrote: > In REFLECTIONS ON A MARINE VENUS, on page 70, I believe, Durrell > describes a church service on Patmos as culminating in a "anna livia > plurabelle" moment. I am unable to determine what he means. The only > reference I can locate is that Anna Livia Plurabelle is a character in > FINNEGAN'S WAKE. I don't feel guilty not having read FINNEGAN'S WAKE, > though, as I once read Henry Miller quoted as saying that only scholars > can get through it... So, perhaps one of you scholars can help me! > > WILLIAM APT > Austin, Texas > > > > > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:20:19 -0600 > > From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com > > To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca > > Subject: [ilds] Tunc and Nunquam > > > > Hello all, > > > > I thought this might be of interest. > > > > Best, > > James > > > > --------------- > > > > Blog: Anderson Brown's Literary Blog > > Post: Aut Tunc, aut Nunquam > > Link: > > > http://andersonbrownliterary.blogspot.com/2008/08/aut-tunc-aut-nunquam.html > > _______________________________________________ > > ILDS mailing list > > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got Game? Win Prizes in the Windows Live Hotmail Mobile Summer Games > Trivia Contest Find out how. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds From billyapt at hotmail.com Tue Aug 5 08:51:45 2008 From: billyapt at hotmail.com (William Apt) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:51:45 -0500 Subject: [ilds] QUESTION In-Reply-To: <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks, James. That was certainly helpful. I'll take your advice. > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:34:14 -0600> From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca> Subject: Re: [ilds] QUESTION> > Hello William,> > I'm afraid I can't answer your question, but I can throw a few other > things into the pot -- perhaps others can say more.> > Durrell did lecture on Joyce during his trip to California, and "anna > livia plurabelle" was a part of that lecture. Moreover, for /Finnegans > Wake/, Miller was very nasty about Joyce in his book on Lawrence > (published in 1980, I believe, but written during his years in Paris), > yet there's an entire paragraph of /Finnegans Wake/ in Miller's /Tropic > of Cancer/, lifted verbatim. It's a particularly odd passage, so it's > impossible Miller did it accidentally, nor does it come across as a > 'good' moment so it seems unlikely to have been taken because Miller > thought it a very fine passage -- it looks much more like a veiled > allusion, but I must admit I don't know how it functions.> > Durrell, in contrast, liked Joyce more than Miller claims to have. Note > that /Pied Piper of Lovers/ moves to a letter by the protagonist rather > than the bildungsroman 3rd person narrator (much like /Portrait of the > Artist as a Young Man/) and that /Clea/ ends with the same words > /Portrait/ opens with, "Once upon a time..." There's more as well. > Durrell certainly read, admired, and alluded to Joyce regularly.> > You might want to take a look at just the "Anna Livia Purabelle" moment > in /Wake/, and it is available separately since Joyce first published it > on its own.> > Best,> James> > William Apt wrote:> > In REFLECTIONS ON A MARINE VENUS, on page 70, I believe, Durrell > > describes a church service on Patmos as culminating in a "anna livia > > plurabelle" moment. I am unable to determine what he means. The only > > reference I can locate is that Anna Livia Plurabelle is a character in > > FINNEGAN'S WAKE. I don't feel guilty not having read FINNEGAN'S WAKE, > > though, as I once read Henry Miller quoted as saying that only scholars > > can get through it... So, perhaps one of you scholars can help me!> > > > WILLIAM APT> > Austin, Texas> > > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:20:19 -0600> > > From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com> > > To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca> > > Subject: [ilds] Tunc and Nunquam> > >> > > Hello all,> > >> > > I thought this might be of interest.> > >> > > Best,> > > James> > >> > > ---------------> > >> > > Blog: Anderson Brown's Literary Blog> > > Post: Aut Tunc, aut Nunquam> > > Link:> > > > > http://andersonbrownliterary.blogspot.com/2008/08/aut-tunc-aut-nunquam.html> > > _______________________________________________> > > ILDS mailing list> > > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca> > > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Got Game? 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URL: http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20080805/d01e57a2/attachment.html From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 09:43:56 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:43:56 -0600 Subject: [ilds] The Amateur Naturalist | Ecology week on Corfu Message-ID: <4898834C.7040106@gmail.com> Hello all, I thought this update might be of interest. If you know of any budding young naturalists, please pass it along! --James ------------------- "THE AMATEUR NATURALIST" http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org/an_2008.htm 14-19 September 2008 An Ecology Week with David Bellamy & Lee Durrell The Durrell School of Corfu is pleased to announce the dedication of a plaque and release of the memoirs of Theodore Stephanides to coincide with "The Amateur Naturalist" seminar led by David Bellamy and Lee Durrell. This seminar is aimed at amateur naturalists, of any age, who want an introduction to the natural world from leading experts in the field. The programme is designed to be suitable for advanced amateurs who want to learn about the world of Gerald Durrell's /My Family and Other Animals/ as well as for children and family groups developing a deeper sense of the ecological variety of the natural world. The beautiful island of Corfu will offer exciting field trips, where the wild life can be experienced under the guiding hand of both local and international experts. If time allows a trip to the mainland or Albania will also add a dimension to what should be a very exiting week for all ages. From bf779 at freenet.carleton.ca Tue Aug 5 10:14:22 2008 From: bf779 at freenet.carleton.ca (Philip Walsh) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:14:22 -0400 Subject: [ilds] QUESTION In-Reply-To: References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> Message-ID: <48988A6E.1080004@freenet.carleton.ca> James wrote: > > ...Miller was very nasty about Joyce in his book on Lawrence > > (published in 1980, I believe, but written during his years in Paris), > > yet there's an entire paragraph of /Finnegans Wake/ in Miller's /Tropic > > of Cancer/, lifted verbatim. It's a particularly odd passage, so it's > > impossible Miller did it accidentally, nor does it come across as a > > 'good' moment so it seems unlikely to have been taken because Miller > > thought it a very fine passage -- it looks much more like a veiled > > allusion, but I must admit I don't know how it functions. > > I'm curious: where in Tropic of Cancer is this passage? Thanks. Philip Walsh Ottawa, Canada From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 11:39:18 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:39:18 -0600 Subject: [ilds] QUESTION In-Reply-To: <48988A6E.1080004@freenet.carleton.ca> References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> <48988A6E.1080004@freenet.carleton.ca> Message-ID: <48989E56.6070308@gmail.com> Hi Phillip, It's the OOMAHARUMOOMA passage, which is a paragraph from Joyce?s /Finnegans Wake/ (Miller, /Tropic/ 97; Joyce, /Finnegans/ 180). Miller repeats the OOMAHARUMOOM later in the novel immediately followed by the dictum ?Everything has to have a name? (259). I think it's pretty clearly a gesture to Joyce, but I must admit I've not riddled out how it works or might work... I'd say he'd ridiculing /Finnegans Wake/ since it's Nanatee trying to get Miller to say nonsense words, but I don't think it's entirely that simple either. Partly, I'd read it as also showing how Miller through Joyce could be worked into a different aesthetic direction while retaining his verbal ingenuity. Here are the volumes I used -- oh, and this isn't just my observation either. It crops up in the criticism, but no one has ever really said much about it. Joyce, James. /Finnegans Wake/. New York: Penguin, 1999. Miller, Henry. /Tropic Of Cancer/. Toronto: Signet Classic-Penguin Books Canada, 1995. Best, James Philip Walsh wrote: > James wrote: > >>> ...Miller was very nasty about Joyce in his book on Lawrence >>> (published in 1980, I believe, but written during his years in Paris), >>> yet there's an entire paragraph of /Finnegans Wake/ in Miller's /Tropic >>> of Cancer/, lifted verbatim. It's a particularly odd passage, so it's >>> impossible Miller did it accidentally, nor does it come across as a >>> 'good' moment so it seems unlikely to have been taken because Miller >>> thought it a very fine passage -- it looks much more like a veiled >>> allusion, but I must admit I don't know how it functions. >>> > I'm curious: where in Tropic of Cancer is this passage? > > Thanks. > > Philip Walsh > Ottawa, Canada > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds > From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 11:45:47 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:45:47 -0600 Subject: [ilds] QUESTION In-Reply-To: <48988A6E.1080004@freenet.carleton.ca> References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> <48988A6E.1080004@freenet.carleton.ca> Message-ID: <48989FDB.5090604@gmail.com> I ought to have noted as well that the dating of the publications show that Miller was reading the instalments of the "Work in Progress" and not the final /Finnegans Wake/, which only appeared 5 years after /Tropic of Cancer/. Alas, I don't know which instalment it was in, or when it was published (sometime during the decade prior to 1934!), but I don't think it would be hard to find out. It's something I've always meant to go back to but never have... Cheers, James Philip Walsh wrote: > James wrote: > >>> ...Miller was very nasty about Joyce in his book on Lawrence >>> (published in 1980, I believe, but written during his years in Paris), >>> yet there's an entire paragraph of /Finnegans Wake/ in Miller's /Tropic >>> of Cancer/, lifted verbatim. It's a particularly odd passage, so it's >>> impossible Miller did it accidentally, nor does it come across as a >>> 'good' moment so it seems unlikely to have been taken because Miller >>> thought it a very fine passage -- it looks much more like a veiled >>> allusion, but I must admit I don't know how it functions. >>> > I'm curious: where in Tropic of Cancer is this passage? > > Thanks. > > Philip Walsh > Ottawa, Canada > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds > From godshawl at email.uc.edu Tue Aug 5 12:59:34 2008 From: godshawl at email.uc.edu (william godshalk) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:59:34 -0400 Subject: [ilds] ALP who was she? In-Reply-To: <48989FDB.5090604@gmail.com> References: <4897AAD3.9090408@gmail.com> <489872F6.3080308@gmail.com> <48988A6E.1080004@freenet.carleton.ca> <48989FDB.5090604@gmail.com> Message-ID: <70.09.22543.E11B8984@gwout2> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20080805/3928d6ee/attachment.html From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Thu Aug 7 09:11:45 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:11:45 -0600 Subject: [ilds] CFP: 2009 ASLE Conference (Victoria, BC 6/3/09-6/6/09) In-Reply-To: <4E8FEDCB-6020-4505-94E3-52BA254CA653@brown.edu> References: <4E8FEDCB-6020-4505-94E3-52BA254CA653@brown.edu> Message-ID: <489B1EC1.8030808@gmail.com> Hello all, This conference's theme, "Island Time: The Fate of Place," seems like a sure match for issues of interest to Durrellians! Many may remember Victoria as the site of the 2006 OMG. I've read through their website and will likely pitch something myself. Best, James > The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) > invites proposals for its Eighth Biennial Conference, to be held June > 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada, > on the theme of "Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming > World." The conference features plenary sessions with Andrew Revkin, > environment reporter for "The New York Times"; Richard Primack, > editor-in-chief of "Biological Conservation"; Ruth Ozeki, author of > "My Year of Meats," and many other speakers. > > We seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and > other public presentations connecting language, nature, and culture. > As always, we welcome interdisciplinary approaches; readings of > environmentally inflected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; > and proposals from outside the academic humanities, including > submissions from artists, writers, practitioners, activists, and > colleagues in the social and natural sciences. > > For more information, including the complete Call for Proposals, as > well as information on pre-conference workshops and seminars, field > sessions, presentation formats, submission guidelines, biographies of > plenary speakers, graduate student travel awards, and book and > graduate student paper awards, see http://asle.uvic.ca/ > > Deadline for Proposals: November 15, 2008 From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Sat Aug 9 12:42:42 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:42:42 -0600 Subject: [ilds] CFP: Lawrence Durrell: Reviewing the Durrell Canon Message-ID: <489DF332.4010405@gmail.com> Lawrence Durrell: Reviewing the Durrell Canon http://www.lawrencedurrell.org/louisville_2009.htm The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 http://modernlanguages.louisville.edu/conference/ Louisville, KY | 19-21 February The International Lawrence Durrell Society will sponsor a panel at Louisville addressing all aspects of Lawrence Durrell's body of work. We are particularly interested in papers which investigate Durrell's lesser known and read works and their place in the Durrell canon, as well as their place in the larger canon of literature in English. For instance, how does his poetry respond better-known "schools" of poetry such as the Auden school, etc.? Does The Avignon Quintet belong in the canon of postmodern literature? What is the relationship between Durrell's nonfiction (e.g., A Smile in the Mind's Eye) and his fiction? How has LD influenced the genre of travel writing? As part of a series of panels aimed at sponsoring inter-society discussion, this panel also welcomes papers that relate Durrell's oeuvre to the work of others of his milieu; furthermore, the "milieu" itself may be addressed, e.g., how can Durrell's work help us define?or complicate?a term such as "late modernism?" Please send a 1 page abstract to Pamela Francis, International Lawrence Durrell Society, (pfrancis at rice.edu) by Sept. 12, 2008. Final presentations should be limited to 20 minutes. From odos.fanourios at gmail.com Sat Aug 9 12:44:30 2008 From: odos.fanourios at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:44:30 -0600 Subject: [ilds] CFP: Locating the Coterie: Writers' Circles and their Cities Message-ID: <489DF39E.1050103@gmail.com> Locating the Coterie: Writers' Circles and their Cities http://www.lawrencedurrell.org/louisville_2009.htm The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 http://modernlanguages.louisville.edu/conference/ Louisville, KY | 19-21 February While Paris stands as the urban icon of the literary and artistic world in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, many other cities have served as a locus for writers and artists, who by common attitudes towards their art, by the virtue of proximity, or by forces such as war and empire, have settled in a particular city. For instance: * Berlin: The House of Arts and the Writers Club: Russians in Berlin, 1921-1923 * Athens: Durrell, Spencer, Liddell, and the British Council * London: the FitzRoy Tavern between the Wars * New Orleans: Anderson, Faulkner, et al, 1920s * New York: February House, 1940-41 * Cairo: Refugee English Poets, World War II In each city, certain situations and conditions have influenced the writers and artists themselves, and we may assume that the coteries have in turn shaped the space and place of that city, even to the extent of a permanent association with a building or neighborhood (e.g., February House in New York) . The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests papers on topics that address the relationship between coteries and their locations, or that investigate a single writer in relation to his or her urban locus. We are particularly interested in papers that address Lawrence Durrell and his affiliation to both specific locations and other writers. Topics may include but are not limited to: * War and Dis/location (Berlin, c. 1917, Cairo in World War II), * Nationalism, Literature, and the City (Vienna and Zionism) * The Occupation of Space: How Writers Inscribed a City (WPA Artists in Manhattan) * Defining a Literary "Circle" This panel complements a series of panels sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society aimed at promoting dialogue and collaboration among the various societies and associations represented annually at the Louisville conference and other conferences. To this end, we invite proposals for papers on a variety of topics that will promote discussion of Modernist authors in their milieu and across the Twentieth Century. Please send a 1-page abstract to Pamela Francis, International Lawrence Durrell Society, (pfrancis at rice.edu) by Sept. 12, 2008. Final papers should be limited to 20 minute presentations.