Biography EssayMalcolm Lowry's reputation rests largely on a single novel, Under the Volcano (1947), the semiautobiographical account of an expatriate Englishman's disintegration through despair and ...
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Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) is best known for his one and only masterpiece, an autobiographical novel entitled Under the Volcano. It weaves together themes of alienation, love, political idealism, and m...
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Malcolm Lowry's reputation rests largely on a single novel, Under the Volcano (1947), the semi-autobiographical account of an expatriate Englishman's disintegration through despair and dipsomania in M...
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In the following excerpt, Edmonds recounts the details and blissful qualities of Geoffrey Firmin's drinking binge in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.
My thoughts toward this paper b...
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In the following essay, Vice examines the hallucinogenic sequences in Under the Volcano.
'If I ever start to drink that stuff, Geoffrey, you'll know I'm done for.'
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In the following essay, Wild investigates Malcolm Lowry's complex use of the sea—primarily as a symbolic place of healing—in his novel Under the Volcano.
On the surface it woul...
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Teaching Under the Volcano
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