Forest of Symbols: World, Text and Self in Malcolm Lowry's Fiction

by Patrick A. McCarthy

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This study looks at Lowry's work, examining the ways in which acts of reading, writing and interpretation define his characters, and also at how they threaten those characters' sense of a coherent identity. The Consul in Under the Volcano is seen to embody Lowry's own anxiety.
  • ISBN13 9780820316093
  • Publish Date 30 September 1994
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Georgia Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English