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This chapter deals with some of the great changes that affected Italy during the 'second Industrial revolution', especially in the fields of transportation and communication.

Since the allusion to the Polish text has only elicited fragmentary responses among the Lowry critics, Filipczak decides to fill in the gap by providing her interpretation of the lighthouse keeper’s perilous illumination mentioned by Lowry in the margins of his work, and by analyzing it in the context of major Romantic texts, notably the epic poem

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER OF ASPINWALL HOW TO

The article contends that the condition of the lighthouse keeper anticipates that of the Lowry protagonist who in “Through the Panama” fears death by his own book, or, to take Lowry’s other phrase, being “Joyced in his own petard.” Basing her analysis on Mieke Bal’s idea of a participatory exhibition where the viewer decides how to approach a video installation, and can do so by engaging with a single detail, Filipczak treats Lowry’s text as a multimodal work where such a detail may give rise to a reassessment of the reading experience. What Lowry stresses in his intertextual allusion is the perilous illumination that the eponymous lighthouse keeper experiences.

Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Nobel prize winner for the whole of his literary output. The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature.

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