Theorizing Intertextuality in Malcolm Lowry
Dr. Richard Lane, South Bank University
North East MLA, Buffalo, 2000. Call for Papers.
Malcolm Lowry questions the nature of the literary object through his
extensive use of intertextuality. In his novels, short-stories,
correspondence, notebooks and archival fragments, we find an intersection of
a multitude of discourses – film, philosophy, canonical literature,
mysticism, theology, popular culture, music and so on. Yet outmoded notions
of closure, completeness, and authorial control have until recently
dominated the editing and interpretation of Lowry’s works.
The purpose of this panel is to explore the intertextual resonances in
Lowry, as well as examining the incomplete, the fragmentary, the unpublished
or unpublishable. Scholars working with archival fragments, manuscript
versions and/or marginalia are particularly welcome. The panel aims to
explore and theorize Lowry’s intertextuality in a provisional sense, rather
than present some finalized or totalized account of his life and works.
The value of the panel will be generated by its legitimization of a new
approach to Malcolm Lowry criticism, bringing together two traditionally
separate areas of study: that of the authorised, published works, and that
of the unpublished, marginal archival material. While scholars will be
encouraged to bridge these two areas of study, papers on other intertextual
connections will be equally welcomed.
Please submit:
Name with academic or institutional title/affiliation
Address
Telephone
e-mail
Abstract of one paragraph (250 words) via email to rlane@btinternet.com
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