{"title":"Letters from Gourgounel","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481298.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481298.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Letters from Gourgounel takes us from big city exploration and investigation to a wild part of south-eastern France, the Ardèche, where White undertakes a resourcing in an elementary context. Hailed in England as « a fascinating curiosity of literature », the book not only made White famous overnight in France, but was seen there as a turning point in the contemporary situation.","PeriodicalId":220894,"journal":{"name":"The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 1","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131307652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incandescent Limbo","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481298.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481298.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Incandescent Limbo recounts White’s years in Paris after his break with the British scene in the sixties and his move to the larger complex of the Continent. Many a writer in the modern era made Paris a focal point of his activity, but probably no one got more out of it than Kenneth White, familiar as he was with French langage and culture right from the start. While exploring a labyrinthine underworld, in all its aspects, the book is fundamentally a move from identity to a field of energy, tracing the birth of this multi-facetted writer as an intellectual nomad.","PeriodicalId":220894,"journal":{"name":"The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 1","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114877453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travels in the Drifting Dawn","authors":"Kenneth White","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481298.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481298.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Travels in the Drifting Dawn shows the intellectul nomad beginning his moves across territories and cultures. After passing through the London undergound of the sixties, then delving into the ground of his native Scotland and neighbouring Ireland, we shift back to the Continent, accumulating experience on different levels in France, Spain, Belgium, Holland before completing the cycle in the desert of North Africa.","PeriodicalId":220894,"journal":{"name":"The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 1","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124760177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}