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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr., The Psychological
Orientation towards Growth in Lawrence Purrell's The
Alexandria Quartet. Doctor of Philosophy (English), May,
1981, 167 pp., bibliography, 19 titles.
In this dissertation I argue that in the characters
in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet there is
consistently evidenced a psychological orientation towards
growth. An introductory Chapter One surveys and a
concluding Chapter Six summarizes the dissertation, but
the body of the text is four chapters demonstrating the
growth-orientation in four characters.
To begin Chapter Two, "Darley's Growth," I recount
the plot of the Quartet relevant to the love affairs of
its hero, Lawrence Darley. I then demonstrate that, in
brief, the Quartet asserts that the human psyche shares
with all life an orientation towards growth. Customarily,
the psyche is urged by sexual instincts towards love
relationships, perhaps the Quartet's most common means
of psychological development. Individual maturation is
contained in and reflects a universal process, consisting
of both bright and dark principles of growth. Into the
psychological and universal growth processes, the artist
has unique insight. In the character of Darley the
psychological growth process is relatively bright,
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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr. The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet", dissertation, May 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330626/m1/3/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .