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This study is an attempt to see how colonial and postcolonial discourses produce the social fabric of mid-twentieth-century Egypt. By examining city space in novels of the period this study aims to explore how colonial and postcolonial discourses articulate everyday practices. T…

In the aftermath of the Second World War, British writers engaged with the reconfiguration of national identity that resulted from the dissolution of the empire. In many regards, the postwar British novel performs the work of diplomacy. While colonial power held together global …

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the modes of encounter between the European Self and the non-western Other in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet. In the encounters, images of both the European White Man and those of the Other are relative, multiple, and constan…

In his informal writings Durrell makes cryptic comments on his idea of the heraldic universe. It is a universe in which time stops and communication happens in pure symbols, nourishing the primordial teleological harmony between human beings and nature. Durrell sees this as a pa…

This study examines how temporal elements in two tetralogies, The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell and The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima, affected this reader's response. Its broad goal was to see the extent to which an examination of how each author's culture affected…