Henry Miller and the Surrealist Discourse of Excess

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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry Miller and the Surrealist Discourse of Excess by : Paul Jahshan

Download or read book Henry Miller and the Surrealist Discourse of Excess written by Paul Jahshan and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Miller is one of the least stylistically understood modern writers. Having been dubbed a Zen saint and ostracized as a happy pornographer, Miller is now relegated to the museum of literary oddities and his text treated with unjustified indifference. If the influence of French surrealism has been recognized by most critics and readers, it is not without a cost: Miller is safely classified as a «surrealist» writer and most, if not all, of his stylistic peculiarities are thus conveniently disposed of. What Miller's texts share with those of the French surrealists is an imagery of excess, indeed, but one which is economically and masterfully geared toward a reader whose response(s) help in constructing a peculiarly Millerian version of stylistic deviation. This study focuses on the way this «Millerian text» invites a fresh re-reading of one of America's leading modern authors.

The Secret Violence of Henry Miller

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Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134840
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret Violence of Henry Miller by : Katy Masuga

Download or read book The Secret Violence of Henry Miller written by Katy Masuga and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller as a writer whose work does something more profound and violent to literary conventions than produce novel effects: it announces the possibility of difference and instability within language itself. Henry Miller is a cult figure in the world of fiction, in part due to having been banned for obscenity for nearly thirty years. Alongside the liberating effect of his explicit treatment of sexuality, however, Miller developed a provocative form of writing that encourages the reader to question language as a stable communicative tool and to consider the act of writing as an ongoing mode of creation, always in motion, perpetually establishing itself and creating meaning through that very motion. Katy Masuga provides a new reading of Miller that is alert to the aggressively and self-consciously writerly form of his work. Critiquing the categorization of Miller into specific literary genres through an examination of the small body of critical texts on his oeuvre, Masuga draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of a minor literature, Blanchot's "infinite curve," and Bataille's theory of puerile language, while also considering Miller in relation to other writers, including Proust, Rilke, and William Carlos Williams. She shows how Miller defies conventional modes of writing, subverting language from within. Katy Masuga is Adjunct Professor of British and American literature, cinema, and the arts in the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Henry Miller

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501326465
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry Miller by : James M. Decker

Download or read book Henry Miller written by James M. Decker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly responses to Henry Miller's works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller's oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation of international Miller scholars has emerged, one that is re-energizing critical readings of this important American Modernist. Henry Miller: New Perspectives presents new essays on carefully chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the most authoritative collection ever published on this author.

Henry Miller and Modernism

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030331652
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Book Synopsis Henry Miller and Modernism by : Finn Jensen

Download or read book Henry Miller and Modernism written by Finn Jensen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930–1939 represents a major reevaluation of Henry Miller, focusing on the Paris texts from 1930 to 1939. Finn Jensen analyzes Miller in the light of European modernism, in particular considering the many impulses Miller received in Paris. Jensen draws on theories of urban modernity to connect Miller’s narratives of a male protagonist alone in a modern metropolis with his time in Paris where he experienced a self-discovery as a writer. The book highlights several sources of inspiration for Miller including Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Hamsun, Strindberg and the American Transcendentalists. Jensen considers the key movements of modernity and analyzes their importance for Miller, studying Eschatology, the Avant-Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, and Anarchism.

Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623569001
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Book Synopsis Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist by : Indrek Männiste

Download or read book Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist written by Indrek Männiste and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basic of Miller's ideas. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed through his literary attacks against the metaphysical design of the modern age. It is argued that, by repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such as history, modern technology and an aesthetisized view of art, Miller paves the way for overcoming Western metaphysics. Finally it is showed that, philosophically, this aim is governed by Miller's idiosyncratic concept of art, in which one is led towards self-liberation through transcending the modern society and its dehumanizing pursuits.

Henry Miller and Narrative Form

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113423838X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry Miller and Narrative Form by : James Decker

Download or read book Henry Miller and Narrative Form written by James Decker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold study James M. Decker argues against the commonly held opinion that Henry Miller’s narratives suffer from ‘formlessness’. He instead positions Miller as a stylistic pioneer, whose place must be assured in the American literary canon. From Moloch to Nexus through such widely-read texts as Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Decker examines what Miller calls his ‘spiral form’, a radically digressive style that shifts wildly between realism and the fantastic. Drawing on a variety of narratological and critical sources, as well as Miller’s own aesthetic theories, he highlights that this fragmented narrative style formed part of a sustained critique of modern spiritual decay. A deliberate move rather than a compositional weakness, then, Miller’s style finds a wide variety of antecedents in the work of such figures as Nietzsche, Rabelais, Joyce, Bergson and Whitman, and is viewed by Decker as an attempt to chart the journey of the self through the modern city. Henry Miller and Narrative Form affords readers new insights into some of the most challenging writings of the twentieth century and provides a template for understanding the significance of an extraordinary and inventive narrative form.

The Making of a Counter-culture Icon

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802092284
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making of a Counter-culture Icon by : Maria R. Bloshteyn

Download or read book The Making of a Counter-culture Icon written by Maria R. Bloshteyn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, the works of Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) do not appear to have much in common with those of the controversial American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980). However, the influencer of Dostoevsky on Miller was, in fact, enormous and shaped the latter's view of the world, of literature, and of his own writing. The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon examines the obsession that Miller and his contemporaries, the so-called Villa Seurat circle, had with Dostoevsky, and the impact that this obsession had on their own work. Renowned for his psychological treatment of characters, Dostoevsky became a model for Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anais Nin, interested as they were in developing a new kind of writing that would move beyond staid literary conventions. Maria Bloshteyn argues that, as Dostoevsky was concerned with representing the individual's perception of the self and the world, he became an archetype for Miller and the other members of the Villa Seurat circle, writers who were interested in precise psychological characterizations as well as intriguing narratives. Tracing the cross-cultural appropriation and (mis)interpretation of Dostoevsky's methods and philosophies by Miller, Durrell, and Nin, The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon gives invaluable insight into the early careers of the Villa Seurat writers and testifies to Dostoevsky's influence on twentieth-century literature.

Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030477606
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture by : Guy Stevenson

Download or read book Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture written by Guy Stevenson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas – ideas that doubted human perfectibility, spurned the majority for a spiritually elect few, and had their roots in earlier politically reactionary avant-gardes. Through case studies of icons in the counterculture – the controversial sexual revolutionary Henry Miller, Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs and self-proclaimed ‘philosopher of hip’, Norman Mailer – Guy Stevenson explores a set of paradoxes at its centre: between romantic optimism and modernist pessimism; between brutal rhetoric and emancipatory desires; and between social egalitarianism and spiritual elitism. Such paradoxes, Stevenson argues, help explain the cultural and political worlds these writers shaped – in their time and beyond.

Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488851
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (888 download)

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Book Synopsis Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth by : Paul Jahshan

Download or read book Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth written by Paul Jahshan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph

Paul Bowles's Literary Engagement with Morocco

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498548032
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Paul Bowles's Literary Engagement with Morocco by : Bouchra Benlemlih

Download or read book Paul Bowles's Literary Engagement with Morocco written by Bouchra Benlemlih and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that Paul Bowles is more perceptive than many American travelers in Morocco. The book provides us with what are perhaps the most sustained meditations to date on Bowles’s translation work and his autobiography, as well as perceptive analyses of key stories such as “A Distant Episode” and “Here to Learn” and his second novel, Let It Come Down, set primarily in Tangier. The chapter on translation dwells on the complex interactions between Moroccan storytellers and Bowles. The work considers translation as a site where the oral and written, colonial and post-colonial scene, and English and Maghrebi come face to face; it is a place where things are worked out in dynamic interaction. The chapter on Bowles’s autobiography Without Stopping, urges us to take this piece of self-writing (famously dubbed Without Telling by William Burroughs) more seriously, drawing our attention to baroque architectural features of mind and external landscape, worlds distorted by mirrors, dreams, and fluid transit where forms morph. The work also highlights difference between experience and representation of experience through language, transformed through the prism of memory. In the chapter on Without Stopping as well as in my discussions of Bowles’s fiction, I provide useful elaborations of connections between Bowles’s work and that of Edgar Allan Poe.My reading of one of Bowles’s best-known stories, “A Distant Episode,” brings to the surface a recognition that the tragic fate of the Professor, the story’s protagonist, is an outcome of his inability to admit that cultures are not static. The academically trained linguist demonstrates an unwillingness or inability to adapt to change, or to read cultural signs accurately. The message is that Morocco is not stuck in time, and cannot be held in place by Orientalist fantasies or preconceived, externally derived intellectual constructs and assumptions. The book concludes that against the grain of Samuel Huntington’s notion of Clash of Civilizations, Bowles’s poetic and geographical journey forcefully projects cosmopolitanism and transnational attention confirming that civilizations and ‘identities’ open up rather than shut down, war or clash.

Killing the Buddha

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930428
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Book Synopsis Killing the Buddha by : Jennifer Cowe

Download or read book Killing the Buddha written by Jennifer Cowe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the novels, pamphlets and letters of Henry Miller, Killing the Buddha argues for Miller’s written work to be considered as a whole in relation to the theme of Zen Buddhism, specifically the concept of Satori (awakening). By reading Miller’s literary output and letters as a spiritual journey to awakening, it is possible to chart his development as a writer, and offer insight into his repetitive use of biographical material. Reflecting upon the influence of Otto Rank and Henri Bergson on Miller’s conceptualization of the role of the writer, and then by examining his complex rejection of Surrealism, it is possible to show Miller’s burgeoning Zen Buddhism as a life-long quest for acceptance and authenticity explicitly explored within his work. With close readings of the ‘Obelisk Trilogy’ of the 1930s (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring) and The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy (1949-1960), Miller’s complex journey to Satori is shown as a continuous progression from his early notorious novels through to the essays and pamphlets of his later career.

Nexus

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nexus written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Self-made Surrealist

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Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131331
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis A Self-made Surrealist by : Caroline Blinder

Download or read book A Self-made Surrealist written by Caroline Blinder and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new evaluation of a writer who was the talk of the literary world in the early days of the sexual revolution. Since the publication of Tropic of Cancer in 1934, Henry Miller has been the target of critics from all sides. A Self-Made Surrealist sets out to provide a view of Miller different from both earlier vindications of him as sexual liberator and prophet and more contemporary feminist critiques of him as pornographer and male chauvinist. In this re-evaluation of Miller's role as a radical writer, Blinder considers not only notions of obscenity and sexuality, but also the emergence of psychoanalysis, surrealism, automatic writing, and the aesthetics of fascism, as they illuminate Miller's more general 20th-century concerns with politics and mass psychology in relation to art. Blinder also considers the effect on Miller of the theoretical works of Georges Bataille and André Breton, among others, in order to define and explore the social, philosophical, and political contexts of the period. By examining the enormous impetus Miller got from being in the midst of French culture and its debate, A Self-Made Surrealist shows that Miller was indeed a seminal writer of the period rather than simply an isolated male chauvinist.

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by : Brian W. Shaffer

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

American Book Publishing Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2744 pages
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Book Review Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.