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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Main Author: Johnston, Elizabeth Lee
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/19979