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.…mehr
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.
James M. Decker is Professor of English and Language Studies at Illinois Central College, USA. He is the author of Henry Miller and Narrative Form: Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005) and Ideology (2003) and is the Editor of Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal. Indrek Männiste is Lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia, and author of Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist: A Philosophical Inquiry (2013).
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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Chronology Foreword Lou Renza, Dartmouth College, USA Abbreviations Introduction Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia, and James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA Henry Miller's Inhuman Philosophy Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia "The agonizing gutter of my past": Henry Miller, Conversion, and the Trauma of the Modern James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA When Henry Miller Left for Tibet Paul Jahshan, Notre Dame University, Lebanon The Religiosity of Henry Miller Edward Abplanalp, Illinois Central College, USA Henry Miller and Morality Guy Stevenson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Tropic Of Cancer: Word Becoming Flesh Ondrej Skovajsa, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic "A dirty book worth reading": Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and the Feminist Backlash Anna Lillios, University of Central Florida, USA Henry Miller: Obscene Other of the Law Rob Herian, University of London, UK The Ecstatic Psychotic: Henry Miller via Jacques Lacan Hamish Jackson, University of East Anglia, UK Big Sur and Walden: Henry Miller's Practical Transcendentalism Eric Lehman, University of Bridgeport, USA A Surrealist Duet: Word and Image in Into the Night Life with Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz Sarah Garland, University of East Anglia, UK Cartography Of The Obscene Jeff Bursey, essayist and author of Verbatim: A Novel Dispossessed Sexual Politics: Henry Miller's Anarchism Qua Kate Millett And Ursula K. Le Guin James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Miller's Paris Finn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Henry Miller's Titillating Words Katy Masuga, Skidmore College, France Bibliography Index
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Chronology Foreword Lou Renza, Dartmouth College, USA Abbreviations Introduction Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia, and James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA Henry Miller's Inhuman Philosophy Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Estonia "The agonizing gutter of my past": Henry Miller, Conversion, and the Trauma of the Modern James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA When Henry Miller Left for Tibet Paul Jahshan, Notre Dame University, Lebanon The Religiosity of Henry Miller Edward Abplanalp, Illinois Central College, USA Henry Miller and Morality Guy Stevenson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Tropic Of Cancer: Word Becoming Flesh Ondrej Skovajsa, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic "A dirty book worth reading": Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and the Feminist Backlash Anna Lillios, University of Central Florida, USA Henry Miller: Obscene Other of the Law Rob Herian, University of London, UK The Ecstatic Psychotic: Henry Miller via Jacques Lacan Hamish Jackson, University of East Anglia, UK Big Sur and Walden: Henry Miller's Practical Transcendentalism Eric Lehman, University of Bridgeport, USA A Surrealist Duet: Word and Image in Into the Night Life with Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz Sarah Garland, University of East Anglia, UK Cartography Of The Obscene Jeff Bursey, essayist and author of Verbatim: A Novel Dispossessed Sexual Politics: Henry Miller's Anarchism Qua Kate Millett And Ursula K. Le Guin James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Miller's Paris Finn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Henry Miller's Titillating Words Katy Masuga, Skidmore College, France Bibliography Index
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