Islands of the Mind Also of Interest from Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Islands of the Mind Also of interest from Cambridge Scholars Publishing – Creativity, Madness and Civilisation (edited by Richard Pine, 2007) – Literatures of War (edited by Richard Pine and Eve Patten, 2008) – Greece in the Balkans: Memory, Conflict and Exchange (edited by Othon Anastasakis, Dimitar Bechev and Nicholas Vrousalis, 2009) – Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World (edited by Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni, Tatiani G. Rapatzikou and Eleftheria Arapoglou, 2012) – Islands in the Sky: The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus through Space and Time by Rose Hammond, 2012 – The Ionian Islands: aspects of their history and culture (edited by Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, 2014) – Critical Times, Critical Thoughts: Contemporary Greek Writers Discuss Facts and Fiction (edited by Natasha Lemos and Eleni Yannakakis, 2015) – The Problem of Modern Greek Identity: From the Ecumene to the Nation-State (edited by Georgios Steiris, Sotiris Mitralexis and Georgios Arabatzis, 2016) – Indian Metaphysics in Lawrence Durrell’s Novels by C. Ravindran Nambiar, 2016 – Uniting Regions and Nations through the Looking Glass of Literature (edited by Karoline Szatek-Tudor, 2017) – Lawrence Durrell's Endpapers and Inklings 1933-1988 (2 volumes, edited by Richard Pine, 2019) – Encounters in Greek and Irish Fiction: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives (edited by Paschalis Nikolaou, 2020) Islands of the Mind: Psychology, Literature and Biodiversity Edited by Richard Pine and Vera Konidari Islands of the Mind: Psychology, Literature and Biodiversity Edited by Richard Pine and Vera Konidari This book first published 2020 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2020 by Richard Pine, Vera Konidari and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-4553-9 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-4553-3 Figure 1. Frontispiece: Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell, Jersey Zoo, 1960 (Estate of Gerald Durrell – photographer unknown) TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations .................................................................................... ix Notes on Contributors ................................................................................. x Editors’ Introduction ................................................................................ xv Acknowledgements ............................................................................... xxiv Part One: Psychology and Biodiversity A Psychology of Islanders? ........................................................................ 2 Godfrey Baldacchino Where the Blue Really Begins: On Islands Imagined and Otherwise ...... 14 Spyros Orfanos and Marietta Orfanou Island-inspired Conservation: The Story of Gerald Durrell ...................... 32 Lee Durrell Island Biogeography: A Perspective from Tasmania ............................... 48 Pete Hay Part Two: Writing the Island Ag Dul Isteach go dti an Oilean / Going in to the Island: Insider and Outsider Perspectives on the Great Blasket Island ................ 58 Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Time Abolished: A Brief Anatomy of an Aspect of Islomania ................ 71 David Roessel Remarks on Sicilian Carousel and its Fabulator ...................................... 83 Bruce Redwine Paradise Lost: Bitter Lemons and the End of Durrell’s Islomania ............ 99 David Green viii Table of Contents Part Three: The Durrells in Corfu Nancy and Lawrence Durrell at the White House, Kalami ..................... 108 Joanna Hodgkin Writing the Durrells ................................................................................ 116 Simon Nye and Dominic Green Part Four: Writers of Corfu Konstantin Theotokis: An Introduction .................................................. 124 Anna Korniliou Theodore Stephanides: Trailing the Islands of his Mind ........................ 140 Vera Konidari Islands, Continents, Worlds and Galaxies: Science and Sensibility in the Poetry of Theodore Stephanides ................................................... 156 Anthony Hirst Spyros Plaskovitis ................................................................................. 171 Dimitris Konidaris and Perikles Pagratis Part Five: Lawrence Durrell, Psychology and Philosophy Leaving Home and Adolescence in Lawrence Durrell’s Pied Piper of Lovers: A Psychoanalytic Reading ..................................................... 176 Rony Alfandary Islands of the Mind: A Response to Rony Alfandary’s “Psychoanalytic Reading” ................................................................................................. 194 Dominic Green The Indian Element in Lawrence Durrell’s Novels ................................ 205 Ravindran Nambiar Lawrence Durrell’s “Heraldic Universe”: The Magnetic Island and Self-discovery .................................................................................. 219 Richard Pine The Metaphor of “Place-Time” and Lawrence Durrell’s Heraldic Universe .................................................................................................. 244 Ciarán Benson LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Frontispiece: Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell, Jersey Zoo, 1960 (Estate of Gerald Durrell – photographer unknown) 2. A seventeenth-century map, showing the Diapontia islands on the north- west coast of the main island of Corfu. 3. The dodo 4. The dodo as the emblem of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (photo: Colin Stevenson) 5. Jambo the silverback gorilla (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 6a. Gerald Durrell with the volcano rabbit – a “little brown job” 6b. The volcano rabbit (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 7. Mauritius kestrels (photo: Gregory Guida) 8. Ploughshare tortoise (photo: Tim Flachs/Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 9. Lake Alaotra gentle lemur (photo: Joanna Durbin/Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 10. St. Lucia parrot (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 11. Mountain chicken, Montserrat (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 12. Mission statement written in stone (photo: Lee Durrell) 13. Survival of Durrell species (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) 14. Tasmanian Devil (photo: Pete Hay) 15. The Blasket Islands, Ireland 16. The White House, Kalami, 1935 (photo: courtesy Joanna Hines) 17. Theodore Stephanides, “Island Trails” 18. Henry Miller, inscribed copy of Tropic of Cancer (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) 19. Lawrence Durrell’s womb parabola (Université Paris-X, Nanterre) 20. Lawrence Durrell, passing from ego to id (Université Paris-X, Nanterre) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Rony Alfandary is a clinical social worker practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and lectures at the School of Social Work, University of Haifa and at the Post-Graduate programme of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programme, Bar-Ilan University. He writes and publishes poetry, prose and non-fiction. Among his recent publications is Exile and Return: a Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet. His research interests are multi-disciplinary and include photography, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, the relations between language, creativity and the sense of self and belonging, and the impact of the Holocaust upon second and third generations. Godfrey Baldacchino is UNESCO co-chair in Island Studies at Prince Edward Island University, Canada, and professor of sociology at the University of Malta. His many books include the Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies (2018) and, with his wife Anna, A Taste of Islands (2012). He was elected President of the International Small Islands Studies Association in 2014 and Chair of the Scientific Board of RETI, the Network of Island Universities, in 2015. He was the founder of Island Studies Journal, which he edited from 2006 to 2017. Ciarán Benson is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin. The founding Chairman of the Irish Film Institute, he was also Chairman of An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council of Ireland 1993- 1998. His books include The Absorbed Self: Pragmatism, Psychology and Aesthetic Experience (1993) and The Cultural Psychology of Self: Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds (2001). He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics. Lee McGeorge Durrell was born in Memphis. She obtained a PhD in Zoology for research on animal communication in Madagascar and married Gerald Durrell in 1979. Together they wrote books and presented television series on natural history and the conservation work of the Trust set up by Gerald in Jersey, which now operates all over the world. After Gerald’s death in 1995, Lee succeeded him as Honorary Director. She maintains a deep interest in the Trust’s work both in Jersey and overseas and plays an Islands of the Mind: Psychology, Literature and Biodiversity xi important role as ambassador and fund-raiser. David Green is a semi-retired history teacher, poet and freelance writer whose main focus is Lawrence Durrell’s island books, and his essays and stories on travel and Spirit of Place. In 2012 he wrote and narrated Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Wartime Correspondence, a radio documentary for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. After a visit to Provence

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