TY - JOUR AU - Middlebro', Tom PY - 1982/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Political Strand in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano JF - Studies in Canadian Literature JA - SCL VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Notes and Commentaries DO - UR - https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/7977 SP - AB - Lowry claimed that <em>Under the Volcano</em> has a political strand: that of the failure of will in western civilization when faced with the rise of Fascism. In this light, Lowry's novel can be compared to Thomas Mann's <em>Doktor Faustus</em>. Both works explore the disintegration of a sense of continuity and value in human experience through psychological, mythical, and political aspects. ER -