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- catalog abstract "The Second World War stranded a colony of British writers in Egypt, where they lived on the borderland of an alien culture and a distant British homeland. This study concentrates on four important poets - Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, Bernard Spencer, and Terence Tiller - the journal with which they were associated, Personal Landscape, and the milieu of wartime Cairo. On the periphery of this group were, among others, Olivia Manning and G.S. Fraser, and the Greek exiles George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou. Cairo's "unreality"--The war in the Western Desert, cultural otherness and the varied definitions of exile, the layers of a native and an imperial history, the currents of political propaganda, literary rivalries played out far from the metropolitan center - formed the background to the growth of these four distinct poetic voices, as well as the establishment of a magazine that promoted a modernist aesthetic and a canon that embraced contemporary Greek letters.".
- catalog contributor b7959508.
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Egypt) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Egypt In literature.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-240) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: War, Empire, and Memory -- 1. Wartime Cairo: Exile and Empire -- 2. Personal Landscapes -- 3. "Up the Blue": The Passage of Keith Douglas -- 4. Terence Tiller and the "Customary Self" -- 5. Bernard Spencer: The Quiet Exile -- 6. "The Artist at His Papers": Lawrence Durrell and the Poetry of Transformation -- 7. After the Fact: Creating and Re-Creating Egypt in The Alexandria Quartet -- Appendix A: Wartime Egypt in Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir, 1944-1994 -- Appendix B: Personal Landscape.".
- catalog description "The Second World War stranded a colony of British writers in Egypt, where they lived on the borderland of an alien culture and a distant British homeland. This study concentrates on four important poets - Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, Bernard Spencer, and Terence Tiller - the journal with which they were associated, Personal Landscape, and the milieu of wartime Cairo. On the periphery of this group were, among others, Olivia Manning and G.S. Fraser, and the Greek exiles George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou. Cairo's "unreality"--The war in the Western Desert, cultural otherness and the varied definitions of exile, the layers of a native and an imperial history, the currents of political propaganda, literary rivalries played out far from the metropolitan center - formed the background to the growth of these four distinct poetic voices, as well as the establishment of a magazine that promoted a modernist aesthetic and a canon that embraced contemporary Greek letters.".
- catalog extent "246 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Many histories deep.".
- catalog identifier "0838635679 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Many histories deep.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Many histories deep.".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Egypt) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Cairo".
- catalog spatial "Egypt In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt".
- catalog subject "821/.91209358 20".
- catalog subject "British Egypt Cairo History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "English poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry Egypt Cairo History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature publishing Egypt History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PR605.W66 B68 1995".
- catalog subject "Periodicals Publishing Egypt History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Personal landscape.".
- catalog subject "Soldiers' writings, English Egypt History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Egypt Cairo Literature and the war.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: War, Empire, and Memory -- 1. Wartime Cairo: Exile and Empire -- 2. Personal Landscapes -- 3. "Up the Blue": The Passage of Keith Douglas -- 4. Terence Tiller and the "Customary Self" -- 5. Bernard Spencer: The Quiet Exile -- 6. "The Artist at His Papers": Lawrence Durrell and the Poetry of Transformation -- 7. After the Fact: Creating and Re-Creating Egypt in The Alexandria Quartet -- Appendix A: Wartime Egypt in Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir, 1944-1994 -- Appendix B: Personal Landscape.".
- catalog title "Many histories deep : the personal landscape poets in Egypt, 1940-45 / Roger Bowen.".
- catalog type "text".