Contents -- Frontispiece: El Anís del Consul -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Editions -- Putting Lowry in Perspective: An Introduction -- PART ONE: LOWRY AND THE FICTION OF LIFE -- Not with a Bang -- "A Norwegian at Heart": Lowry and the Grieg Connection -- "Nordahl Grieg, I greet you!" -- Lowry and the Aesthetics of Salvation -- PART TWO: UNDER THE VOLCANO -- Genus Floridum: Translating Under the Volcano -- Praxis as Prophylaxis: A Political Reading of Under the Volcano -- Revision and Illusion in Under the Volcano -- The Consul as Communicator: The Voice under the Volcano -- The Volcano of a Postmodern Lowry -- The Uses of Intertextuality in Under the Volcano -- PART THREE: IN THE SHADOW OF THE VOLCANO -- The Road to Renewal: Dark as the Grave and the Rite of Initiation -- From Innocent Story to Charon's Boat: Reading the "October Ferry" Manuscripts -- Hear us O Lord and Lowry's Micro/Macro Text -- The Emergence of an Authorial Figure in the Manuscripts of Lowry's Poetry -- Under the Shadow of the Volcano: Malcolm Lowry's Poetry -- PART FOUR: SWINGING THE MAELSTROM: AN APOSTROPHE -- Lowry, Jazz, and "The Day of the Dead" -- Hear us O Lord and the Orpheus Occasion -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.