[ilds] Oswald Spengler

[Bruce Redwine]

Thanks, James.  These articles are hard to come by.  In the bibliography below, Dickson’s is wrongly cited—no such article appears in my issues of DL 5.1 (1981).  Since DL, first series, rarely had more than 10pp./issue, pp. 272-80 suggests another journal.  None of the other journals are listed in JSTOR.

Even so, I’m beginning to think Spengler was a major influence on Durrell, far more so than the “decline” theme in his title:  The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes).  

Bruce





> On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:52 AM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> There are a few helpful articles on Durrell and Spengler:
> 
> Christensen, Peter G. “The Hazards of Intellectual Burglary in Lawrence Durrell’s The Revolt of Aphrodite.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 24.1 (1991): 41–56.
> 
> Clawson, James M. “Between Physics and Metaphysics: Spenglerian Bergsonism in Durrell’s Revolt of Aphrodite.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 43.4 (December 2010): 123–39.
> 
> Dickson, Gregory. “Spengler’s Theory of Architecture in Durrell’s Tunc and Nunquam.” Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Quarterly 5.1 (1981): 272–80.
> 
> Morrison, James Raymond. “Memory and Light in Lawrence Durrell’s The Revolt of Aphrodite.” Labrys 5 (1979): 141–53.
> 
> Clawson also discusses Spengler extensively in his just-released /Durrell Re-read/ through FDU Press.  I'm re-reading the book right now, and it's excellent.
> 
> Cheers,
> James

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