1997

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SKETCHES

Introduction
    -David Roessel, Gerald L. Vincent

"Yorick's Column": Lawrence Durrell's Unsigned Humor Sketches in the Egyptian Gazette, 1941
    -Lawrence Durrell

ESSAYS

"Father of his landscape": Lawrence Durrell's Creation of Landscape and Character in Cyprus
    -Michael Given

On Desert Ground: Ondaatje's The English Patient, Durrell, and the Shifting Sands of Critical Typologies
    -John Maynard

Durrell and Plotinus: Mapping the City, Mapping Life
    -John M. Rose

Islam and the Muslims in The Alexandria Quartet
    -Rosalind Gwynne

Love at Verfeuille: Duality of a Trinity
    -Marie-Christine Veldeman

"Just how busy all this nothingness can be": Durrell's Irish Faustus
    -Keith Cushman

"Memory's Seditious Brew": Mythic Resonances in Durrell's Greek Poetry
    -Virginia Kirby-Smith Carruthers

POETRY
SPIRIT OF PLACE: THE WHITE MICE POETS

Africa
    -Lilian Critchfield

Advice for a Friend in Mountain Lion Territory
    -J.D. Ho

The Cliffs
    -Mollie Cox Bryan

Hartford
    -Mabel C. Donnelly

Tyneham evacuated by the War Office in 1943 "for the duration of the Emergency"
    -K.V. Skene

Fox and Geese
    -David Williams Russell

Sisters
    -Mavis Jones

EGYPTIAN DAYS: POEMS FROM ALEXANDRIA, SUMMER 1996
David Radavich

Cavafy's House

Visiting an Alexandrine Mosque

Along the Nile

ALEXANDRIA: PASSAGE OR ORIGIN? A VISUAL JOURNEY
Corinne Alexandre-Garner

REVIEWS

Van Norden: A Week's Journal: Corfu, May 1996,
    -Ian S. MacNiven

Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, Bitter Lemons (Re-issues)
    -Jane Eblen Keller

Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell
    -Roger Bowen

Lawrence Durrell's Double Concerto and At the Foot of the Acropolis: A Study of Lawrence Durrell's Novels
    -Julius Rowan Raper

Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, or The Kingdom of the Imagination
    -Gregory Dickson

A Riddling Thing: A Study of Time in Five Twentieth-Century Novels
    -Lawrence B. Gamache

D.H. Lawrence: The Cosmic Adventure
    -Keith Cushman

Henry Miller: A Book of Tributes
    -Joe Bratcher III

Anais Nin: A Book of Mirrors
    -Susan Vander Closter

NOTES & QUERIES

Need for More Primary Sources
    -David Roessel and Gerald L. Vincent

The Alexandria Quartet in Family Therapy
    -Paul H. Lorenz

Henry Miller and Lord Byron's Correspondence "on the side of life"
    -Steven Doloff

Durrell Conferences Worldwide, 1997 - 98

Notes on Contributors