[ilds] Oswald Spengler

[Bruce Redwine]

Thanks again, James.  Alas, I don’t have the Special Issue to Deus Loci 5.1.  It could have been lost, but I wonder if I ever received it.  Can that back issue be purchased from the DL archive?

Bruce




> On Jul 19, 2016, at 12:49 PM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> The Dickson is in the /Deus Loci/ Special Issue 5.1 (sorry, I clipped the SI off to avoid confusion anyone -- that's how I listed it in the online bibliography).  I've attached a cover shot.
> 
> Alas, /DL/ isn't in JSTOR, but some of the newer issues are in EBSCO. Labrys isn't likely to be in any databases but your local library can probably get a copy through interlibrary loan.  Mosaic can be had through Project Muse and should be in your local university library.
> 
> As for Spengler, he's certainly used by Durrell.  The matter of free will and determinism in Spengler aligns with the quotation from Dostoevsky's /Underground Man/ that opens Tunc, and the architectural discussions merit comparison.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
> 
> On 2016-07-19 10:43 AM, Bruce Redwine wrote:
>> 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 <mailto:james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
>>> <mailto:james.d.gifford at gmail.com <mailto: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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