A Select Bibliography of Critical Works on Malcolm Lowry and Under the Volcano

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Ackerley, Chris, and Lawrence Clipper. A Companion to 'Under the Volcano'. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984.

Arac, Jonathan. "The Form of Carnival in Under the Volcano." PMLA 92:3 (May 1977), 481-489.

Asals, Frederick. The Making of Malcolm Lowry's 'Under the Volcano'. Athens, Georgia: U of Georgia Press, 1997.

Bareham, Tony. Modern Novelists: Malcolm Lowry. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.

Binns, Ronald. Malcolm Lowry. London: Methuen, 1984.

Costa, Richard Hauer. Malcolm Lowry. New York: Twayne, 1972.

Cross, Richard K. Malcolm Lowry: A Preface to his Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1980.

Dodson, Daniel B. Malcolm Lowry. New York: Columbia UP, 1970.

Edmonds, Dale. "Under the Volcano: A Reading of the 'Immediate Level'." Malcolm Lowry: The Writer & his Critics. ed. Barry Wood. Ottawa: Tecumseh Press, 1980: 57-100.

Epstein, Perle. The Private Labyrinth of Malcolm Lowry: 'Under the Volcano' and the Cabbala. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

Epstein, Perle. "Swinging the Maelstrom: Malcolm Lowry and Jazz." Canadian Literature No. 44, Spring 1970: 57-66.

Garnet, George Rhys. "'Under the Volcano': The Myth of the Hero. Canadian Literature No. 84, Spring 1980: 31-40.

Grace, Sherrill. The Voyage the Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry's Fiction. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1982.

Grace, Sherrill, ed. Swinging in the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 1992.

Grove, Dana. A Rhetorical Analysis of 'Under the Volcano': Malcolm Lowry's Design Governing Postures. Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.

Heilman, Robert B. "The Possessed Artist and the Ailing Soul." Canadian Literature No. 8, Spring 1961: 7-16.

Kilgallin, Tony. Lowry. Erin, Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1973.

Markson, David. Malcolm Lowry's Volcano: Myth, Symbol, Meaning. New York: Times Books, 1978.

McCarthy, Patrick A. Forest of Symbols: World, Text, and Self in Malcolm Lowry's Fiction. Athens, Georgia: U of Georgia P., 1994.

McCarthy, Patrick and Paul Tiessen, eds.Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1997.

Miller, David. Malclom Lowry and the Voyage that Never Ends. London: Enitharmon Press, 1976.

Mota, Miguel and Paul Tiessen. The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry's 'Tender is the Night'. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1990.

New, William. Malcolm Lowry. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971.

Smith, Anne, ed. The Art of Malcolm Lowry. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978.

Tiessen, Paul, ed. Apparently Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990.

Tiessen, Paul. "Malcolm Lowry and the Cinema." Canadian Literature No. 44, Spring 1970: 38-49.

Veitch, Douglas W. Lawrence, Greene and Lowry: The Fictional Landscape of Mexico. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 1978.

Walker, Ronald G. Infernal Paradise: Mexico and the Modern English Novel. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1978.

Woodcock, George, ed. Malcolm Lowry: The Man and his Work. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1971.

York, Thomas. "The Post-Mortem Point of View in 'Under the Volcano.'" Canadian Literature No. 99, Winter 1983: 35-46.



Biographical Resources


Bowker, Gordon, ed. Malcolm Lowry Remembered. London: Ariel, 1985.

Bowker, Gordon. Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry. Toronto: Random House, 1993.

Bradbrook, M. C. Malcolm Lowry: His Art and Early Life - A Study in Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1974.

Day, Douglas. Malcolm Lowry. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.

Gabrial, Jan. Inside the Volcano: My Life with Malcolm Lowry. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Salloum, Sheryl. Malcolm Lowry: Vancouver Days. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1987.


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