[ilds] Gifford's "Late Modernism's Migrations"

[James Gifford]

I should have added, in the book and article, I'm really looking at the 
1930s-40s Durrell (and perhaps as late as 1962), but that doesn't in any 
way negate your contention:

> Durrell’s “Heraldic Universe,” in all its complexity and
> evolution and confusion, is a big aspect of both of these concerns.  I
> tend to treat the matter metaphysically/metaphorically, as Durrell
> himself describes in /A Smile in the Mind’s Eye/ (New York, 1982), that
> is, as some imaginative dimension:  “the alchemical sigil or signature
> of the individual; what’s left with the ego extracted.  It is the pure
> nonentity of the entity for which the poem stands like an ideogram” (p.
> 86).  My approach follows Ray Morrison’s as he explains Durrell’s Taoism
> in his excellent article, “The City and Its Ontology in Lawrence
> Durrell’s /Alexandria Quartet (Mosaic/ 46 [2013]).

That "meta-" and anti-egoic discussion in /A Smile/ is 46 years later 
than the first appearance of the term, although the "Tao and its Glozes" 
was originally published in 1939.

I would, however, point to "ideogram" and Ezra Pound.  I do still 
believe the "So that..." that ends the revised Justine (in the 1962 
omnibus) reflects Durrell's reading (and reviewing) of Pound in 1957 
(Canto I ends with the same phrase that Durrell adds close Justine).

Cheers,
James