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


Contents:

"Putting Lowry in Perspective: An Introduction" by Sherrill Grace.

Part One: Lowry and the Fiction of Life

"Not with a Bang" by Jan Gabrial.

"A Norwegian at Heart: Lowry and the Grieg" by Hallvard Dahlie.

"Nordahl Greig, I Greet You!" edited by Sherrill Grace.

"Lowry and the Aesthetics of Salvation" by David Falk.


Part Two: Under the Volcano

"Genus Floridum: Translating Under the Volcano" edited by Christine Pagnoulle.

"Praxis as Prophylaxis: A Political Reading of Under the Volcano" by Hilda Thomas.

"Revision and Illusion in Under the Volcano" by Frederick Asals.

"The Consul as Communicator: The Voice under the Volcano" by Joan Mulholland.

"The Volcano of a Postmodern Lowry" by Sue Vice.

"The Uses of Intertextuality in Under the Volcano" by D. B. Jewison.


Part Three: In the Shadow of the Volcano

"The Road to Renewal: Dark as the Grave and the Rite of Initiation" by Cynthia Sugars.

"From Innocent Story to Charon's Boat: Reading the 'October Ferry'Manuscripts" by Victor Doyen.

"Hear Us O Lord and Lowry's Micro/Macro Text" by Elsa Linguanti.

"The Emergence of an Authorial Figure in the Manuscripts of Lowry's Poetry" by Suzanne Kim.

"Under the Shadow of the Volcano: Malcolm Lowry's Poetry" by Mark Ellis Thomas.


Part Four: Swinging the Maelstrom: An Apostrophe

"Lowry, Jazz, and 'The Day of the Dead'" by Graham Collier.

"Hear Us O Lord and the Orpheus Occasion" by Robert Kroetsch.



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