The Alexandria quartet : love as metaphysical enquiry
This thesis is based on a conviction that Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet is a metaphysical romance in a truly modern sense; a parable which uses the terminology of modern psychology and romantic love to describe a search for gnosis, or self-knowledge. The characters are prototypes wh...
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Language: | English |
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2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/19979 |