[ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 90, Issue 1

Sat Oct 4 10:53:31 PDT 2014

Hi all
Thought you might want to know that as part of the 30th Haifa Film
Festival, Judith is being screened.this is quite a unique event as the film
has sunk deeply into oblivion and is now shown as being one of the first
internationally produced films in the new state of Israel. The film was a
major commercial and critical flop but I will definitely go and see it.
Rony

Rony Alfandary, Ph.D.
Clinical Social Worker
Bar Ilan University
On 2 Oct 2014 22:11, <ilds-request at lists.uvic.ca> wrote:

> Send ILDS mailing list submissions to
>         ilds at lists.uvic.ca
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>         https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>         ilds-request at lists.uvic.ca
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>         ilds-owner at lists.uvic.ca
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of ILDS digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Personal Modernisms | book released (James Gifford)
>    2. A History Lesson (Denise Tart & David Green)
>    3. Indian Metaphysics in Lawrence Durrell?s Novels (James Gifford)
>    4. Re: A History Lesson (James Gifford)
>    5. Re: Durrell's Egyptological Sources (James Gifford)
>    6. Re: Georgiadis's Spirit of Place (James Gifford)
>    7. Re: Georgiadis's Spirit of Place (Denise Tart & David Green)
>    8. Re: Personal Modernisms | book released (Bruce Redwine)
>    9. Re: A History Lesson (Bruce Redwine)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:55:12 -0700
> From: James Gifford <gifford at fdu.edu>
> To: james.d.gifford at gmail.com
> Subject: [ilds] Personal Modernisms | book released
> Message-ID: <542C5C20.4040900 at fdu.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>
> Colleagues and friends,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that /Personal Modernisms/ is finally out
> through the University of Alberta Press.  They've done fantastic work
> with the design (Alan Brownoff and Jason Dewinetz), and thanks to a
> publications grant the price tag is pretty reasonable -- you can find it
> on amazon or support your independent bookstore and publishers by
> ordering directly:
>
>   CAN: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=1369
>   USA: http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/personal-modernisms
>   EUR: http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/
>
> Please share this with anyone you think would be interested, and if
> you're university-affiliated, perhaps you library would want a copy?
>
> Finally, great thanks to all of you who gave me support, talked about
> the project, or patiently listened to me sort it out in my own thoughts.
>
> All best,
> James
> --
> _________________________________________
>
> James Gifford, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of English & Director of the University Core
> School of the Humanities
> University College
> Fairleigh Dickinson University
> Voice: 604-648-4476
> Fax: 604-648-4489
> E-mail: gifford at fdu.edu
> Web: http://alpha.fdu.edu/~jgifford
>
> 842 Cambie Street
> Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6
> Canada
> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: personal modernisms.pdf
> Type: application/pdf
> Size: 221706 bytes
> Desc: not available
> URL: <
> http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20141001/61534be9/attachment-0001.pdf
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 10:04:35 +1000
> From: "Denise Tart & David Green" <dtart at bigpond.net.au>
> To: <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
> Subject: [ilds] A History Lesson
> Message-ID: <82242F1ED3DB49E68434EE41E3A3460D at DenisePC>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> "In England history has always been considered a manifestation of
> literature rather than of scholarship. There has been a blurring of formal
> boundaries, quite unlike the disciplined or theoretical historical
> inquiries of France and Germany (the United States????). The sixteenth
> century theatre, for example, witnessed the particularly English
> manifestation of the 'history play', and the models for 19th century
> painting were derived  as much from fiction as from history. No account of
> the English imagination is complete without an understanding of this
> strange yet very practical conflation in which myth or fiction is mixed
> with observed facts and details."
>
> - Peter Ackroyd, Albion: the Origins of the English Imagination (p 255)
>
> Ackroyd goes on to cite John Milton's 'History of England' in which he
> declared:
>
> "that which has received approbation from so many, I have chosen not to
> omit. Certain or uncertain, be that upon the credit of those who follow.."
>
> I could not help but think, as I read these words, how much they apply to
> Lawrence Durrell. Durrell may have eschewed 'pudding island' but he
> certainly wrote out of a very English tradition. There is a clear pointer
> here to idea of amateur, literary historical scholarship to which Durrell
> indeed belonged. He is, in all his works, a great blender of myth, fiction,
> history and observed details; a particularly good example of this being
> 'The Dark Labyrinth', but I would would put up the island books as well as
> the great novel sets. Perhaps it is indeed these qualities that make
> Durrell such an appealing writer and one which drew me to him all those
> years ago when I fell upon Prospero's Cell and being entranced, transported
> and conscious of having experienced a sea change.
>
> David Green
>
>
>
> 16 William Street
> Marrickville NSW 2204
> +61 2 9564 6165
> 0412 707 625
> www.denisetart.com.au
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20141002/a93f2546/attachment-0001.html
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:18:09 -0700
> From: James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> To: ILDS Listserv <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
> Subject: [ilds] Indian Metaphysics in Lawrence Durrell?s Novels
> Message-ID: <542CE011.6000908 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> Dear all,
>
> Ravi Nambiar has sent notification that his book, /Indian Metaphysics in
> Lawrence Durrell?s Novels/ through CSP is being discounted from ?45 to ?20:
>
>
> http://www.cambridgescholars.com/indian-metaphysics-in-lawrence-durrells-novels-15
>
> The sale runs until November 2nd.  A book review by Peter Baldwin will
> appear in the next Herald as well.
>
> All best,
> James
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:20:14 -0700
> From: James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Subject: Re: [ilds] A History Lesson
> Message-ID: <542CE08E.5060405 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>
> Fine observations here, David!  I'd also note the improving prescription
> for Gibbon's /Decline and Fall/ in Durrell's /The Black Book/ as well,
> which seems to be as much for prose style as any historical content.
>
> Best,
> James
>
> On 2014-10-01 5:04 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> > "In England history has always been considered a manifestation of
> > literature rather than of scholarship. There has been a blurring of
> > formal boundaries, quite unlike the disciplined or theoretical
> > historical inquiries of France and Germany (the United States????). The
> > sixteenth century theatre, for example, witnessed the particularly
> > English manifestation of the 'history play', and the models for 19th
> > century painting were derived  as much from fiction as from history. *No
> > account of the English imagination is complete without an understanding
> > of this strange yet very practical conflation in which myth or fiction
> > is mixed with observed facts and details."*
> > - Peter Ackroyd, Albion: the Origins of the English Imagination (p 255)
> > Ackroyd goes on to cite John Milton's 'History of England' in which he
> > declared:
> > "that which has received approbation from so many, I have chosen not to
> > omit. Certain or uncertain, be that upon the credit of those who
> follow.."
> > I could not help but think, as I read these words, how much they apply
> > to Lawrence Durrell. Durrell may have eschewed 'pudding island' but he
> > certainly wrote out of a very English tradition. There is a clear
> > pointer here to idea of amateur, literary historical scholarship to
> > which Durrell indeed belonged. He is, in all his works, a great blender
> > of myth, fiction, history and observed details; a particularly good
> > example of this being 'The Dark Labyrinth', but I would would put up the
> > island books as well as the great novel sets. Perhaps it is indeed these
> > qualities that make Durrell such an appealing writer and one which drew
> > me to him all those years ago when I fell upon Prospero's Cell and being
> > entranced, transported and conscious of having experienced a sea change.
> > David Green
> > 16 William Street
> > Marrickville NSW 2204
> > +61 2 9564 6165
> > 0412 707 625
> > www.denisetart.com.au <http://www.denisetart.com.au>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > ILDS mailing list
> > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:28:37 -0700
> From: James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Subject: Re: [ilds] Durrell's Egyptological Sources
> Message-ID: <542CE285.10304 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>
> I can't help much with this, Bruce, except to say Durrell and
> Stephanides met and dined with George Andrew Reisner in Egypt near the
> pyramids.  Stephanides recounts it, so it should be tolerably accurate...
>
> It's probably worth noting the the working titles "Lover Anubis" and
> "Book of the Dead" (ambiguously Egyptian or Tibetan depending on when he
> used the title) predate Durrell's arrival in Egypt, so he was reading to
> some degree prior to this.  The mummy scene in /Panic Spring/ indicates
> some degree of his interests as well.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Best,
> James
>
> On 2014-09-26 2:50 PM, Bruce Redwine wrote:
> > What were Durrell's Egyptological sources for /The Alexandria Quartet?/
> >   I have been able to identify only one ? Anthony De Cosson's /Mareotis/
> > (1935) ? which is a highly, highly superficial account.  Did Durrell
> > have access to any of the standard, scholarly histories, e.g., Flinders
> > Petrie's /History of Egypt/ (1894, 1896), J. H. Breasted's/ History of
> > Egypt/ (1909),  John A. Wilson's /Burden of Egypt/ (1951), or any others
> > of a popular kind.  I assume these books would have been in his library,
> > now in Paris.  Yes, Egyptology does not play a major role in the
> > /Quartet,/ but there are some references that suggest Durrell knew
> > somethings about the subject.  According to Ian MacNiven in his
> > biography, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was closed during the war, so
> > Durrell wouldn't have had access to the largest single collection of
> > ancient Egyptian materials
> >
> > Many thanks for any assistance,
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > ILDS mailing list
> > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:29:30 -0700
> From: James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Subject: Re: [ilds] Georgiadis's Spirit of Place
> Message-ID: <542CE2BA.2070401 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>
> You will keep up all informed, David?!
>
> On 2014-09-26 2:00 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> > Bruce, Ken would probably point out that provence is evoked well in the
> > Quintet, but I reckon the spirits of place are ghosts; the books are
> > haunted, haunted by the past and by loss. If the early Durrell is
> > lemon/citrus colours, The Quintet is shades of grey and darkness on the
> > edge of town. I'll be over there next year. Going to see the Vampire
> > House, take vin blanc at St. Maries Sur La Mere the TGV up to Paris for
> > Durrell/Miller sites and also later RW Hedges guided tour of Larry's
> London.
> >
> > David
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 17:31:54 +1000
> From: Denise Tart & David Green <dtart at bigpond.net.au>
> To: "odos.fanourios at gmail.com" <odos.fanourios at gmail.com>,
>         "ilds at lists.uvic.ca" <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
> Subject: Re: [ilds] Georgiadis's Spirit of Place
> Message-ID: <D5FF1D73-15DD-46AB-9398-4F8AF6B3ACD3 at bigpond.net.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=us-ascii
>
> Yep. Better than that - there will be a story with photos etc possibly
> some radio stuff.
>
> In fact next year's Euro trash US tour is to be written up; centenary of
> WW1, bicentenary of Waterloo, lots of good things going on in 2015.
>
> David
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 2 Oct 2014, at 3:29 pm, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > You will keep up all informed, David?!
> >
> >> On 2014-09-26 2:00 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> >> Bruce, Ken would probably point out that provence is evoked well in the
> >> Quintet, but I reckon the spirits of place are ghosts; the books are
> >> haunted, haunted by the past and by loss. If the early Durrell is
> >> lemon/citrus colours, The Quintet is shades of grey and darkness on the
> >> edge of town. I'll be over there next year. Going to see the Vampire
> >> House, take vin blanc at St. Maries Sur La Mere the TGV up to Paris for
> >> Durrell/Miller sites and also later RW Hedges guided tour of Larry's
> London.
> >>
> >> David
> > _______________________________________________
> > ILDS mailing list
> > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 08:15:50 -0700
> From: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
> To: gifford at fdu.edu, ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Cc: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [ilds] Personal Modernisms | book released
> Message-ID: <67A4F5CC-1118-4D8E-A3BE-C0CFF1E45967 at earthlink.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> Congratulations, James!  I?ve already ordered my copy.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:55 PM, James Gifford <gifford at fdu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Colleagues and friends,
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that /Personal Modernisms/ is finally out
> through the University of Alberta Press.  They've done fantastic work with
> the design (Alan Brownoff and Jason Dewinetz), and thanks to a publications
> grant the price tag is pretty reasonable -- you can find it on amazon or
> support your independent bookstore and publishers by ordering directly:
> >
> > CAN: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=1369
> > USA: http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/personal-modernisms
> > EUR: http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/
> >
> > Please share this with anyone you think would be interested, and if
> you're university-affiliated, perhaps you library would want a copy?
> >
> > Finally, great thanks to all of you who gave me support, talked about
> the project, or patiently listened to me sort it out in my own thoughts.
> >
> > All best,
> > James
> > --
> > _________________________________________
> >
> > James Gifford, Ph.D.
> > Associate Professor of English & Director of the University Core
> > School of the Humanities
> > University College
> > Fairleigh Dickinson University
> > Voice: 604-648-4476
> > Fax: 604-648-4489
> > E-mail: gifford at fdu.edu
> > Web: http://alpha.fdu.edu/~jgifford
> >
> > 842 Cambie Street
> > Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6
> > Canada
> > <personal modernisms.pdf>_______________________________________________
> > ILDS mailing list
> > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 09:43:59 -0700
> From: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
> To: odos.fanourios at gmail.com, ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Cc: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [ilds] A History Lesson
> Message-ID: <5CAF769C-7D25-4B68-9FD3-0C58B2ABDB8F at earthlink.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> As David points out, Lawrence Durrell?s works are steeped in history,
> especially the Quartet and Quintet.  I?m not sure what Ackroyd means by the
> ?theoretical historical inquiries of France and Germany? and will simply
> mention the following as examples of Continental writers whose treatment of
> history is anything but ?theoretical?:  Mann, Broch, Sebald, Montaigne,
> Malraux, Yourcenar.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
> .
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:20 PM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Fine observations here, David!  I'd also note the improving prescription
> for Gibbon's /Decline and Fall/ in Durrell's /The Black Book/ as well,
> which seems to be as much for prose style as any historical content.
> >
> > Best,
> > James
> >
> > On 2014-10-01 5:04 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> >> "In England history has always been considered a manifestation of
> >> literature rather than of scholarship. There has been a blurring of
> >> formal boundaries, quite unlike the disciplined or theoretical
> >> historical inquiries of France and Germany (the United States????). The
> >> sixteenth century theatre, for example, witnessed the particularly
> >> English manifestation of the 'history play', and the models for 19th
> >> century painting were derived  as much from fiction as from history. *No
> >> account of the English imagination is complete without an understanding
> >> of this strange yet very practical conflation in which myth or fiction
> >> is mixed with observed facts and details."*
> >> - Peter Ackroyd, Albion: the Origins of the English Imagination (p 255)
> >> Ackroyd goes on to cite John Milton's 'History of England' in which he
> >> declared:
> >> "that which has received approbation from so many, I have chosen not to
> >> omit. Certain or uncertain, be that upon the credit of those who
> follow.."
> >> I could not help but think, as I read these words, how much they apply
> >> to Lawrence Durrell. Durrell may have eschewed 'pudding island' but he
> >> certainly wrote out of a very English tradition. There is a clear
> >> pointer here to idea of amateur, literary historical scholarship to
> >> which Durrell indeed belonged. He is, in all his works, a great blender
> >> of myth, fiction, history and observed details; a particularly good
> >> example of this being 'The Dark Labyrinth', but I would would put up the
> >> island books as well as the great novel sets. Perhaps it is indeed these
> >> qualities that make Durrell such an appealing writer and one which drew
> >> me to him all those years ago when I fell upon Prospero's Cell and being
> >> entranced, transported and conscious of having experienced a sea change.
> >> David Green
> >> 16 William Street
> >> Marrickville NSW 2204
> >> +61 2 9564 6165
> >> 0412 707 625
> >> www.denisetart.com.au <http://www.denisetart.com.au>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> ILDS mailing list
> >> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> >> https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
> >>
> > _______________________________________________
> > ILDS mailing list
> > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20141002/e0235fe6/attachment-0001.html
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: Digest Footer
>
> _______________________________________________
> ILDS mailing list
> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
> https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of ILDS Digest, Vol 90, Issue 1
> ***********************************
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20141004/d0e2d9ed/attachment.html>