One of the central missions of The International Academic Forum is to provide avenues for academics and researchers to be international, intercultural and interdisciplinary. One of the ways in which we do this is through our in-house magazine Eye, our various conference proceedings, our Journals, and now beginning in the first half of 2015 our special editions of the IAFOR International Academic Review. In this the sixth issue of the IAFOR International Academic Review we the editorial committee bring together a selection of the most interesting contributions from our recent Asian Conferences on Literature with a special emphasis on modern classics from the 20th century.
In the first paper of the five selected authors for this modern classics edition, Nigel Foxcroft investigates the evolution of the cosmic consciousness of the English Modernist novelist and poet, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) by scrutinizing the psychogeographic and subconscious dimensions of the Mexican Day of the Dead Hi
