Author: Richard Colbert BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1666
Book Description
The Apocatastasis of Henry Miller
Author: Richard Colbert BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
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Henry Miller
Author: David Stephen CalonnePublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178023399X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
As an author, Henry Miller (1891–1980) was infamous for his explicit descriptions of sex, and many of his novels, from The Tropic of Cancer to Black Spring, were banned in the United States on grounds of obscenity. But his books—frequently smuggled into his native country—became a major influence on the Beat Generation of American writers and would eventually lead to a groundbreaking series of obscenity trials that would change American laws on pornography in literary works. In this new critical biography, David Stephen Calonne goes beyond Miller’s notoriety to take an innovative look at the way in which the author’s writings and lifestyle were influenced by his spiritual quests. Charting Miller’s cultivation of his esoteric ideas from boyhood and adolescence to later in his career, Calonne examines how Miller remained deeply engaged with a variety of philosophies, from astrology and Gnosticism to Eastern thinkers. Calonne describes not only the effects this had on Miller’s work, but also to his complex and volatile life—his marriages and love affairs with Beatrice Wickens, June Mansfield, and Anaïs Nin; his years in Paris; and the journey to Greece that resulted in the travelogue The Colossus of Maroussi, the book Miller considered to be his greatest work. After discussing Miller’s final residences in Big Sur and the Pacific Palisades in California, Calonne considers the author’s involvement in the arts, love of painting and music, and friendships with a number of classical musicians. Miller, Calonne reveals, was a quirky, charismatic man of genius who continues to influence popular culture today. Highlighting many areas of the author’s life that have previously been neglected, Henry Miller takes a fascinating revisionary approach to the work of one of American’s most controversial and iconic writers.
Form and Image in the Fiction of Henry Miller
Author: Jane A. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Form and Image in the Fiction of Henry Miller is a study of allegorical patterns in Miller's major fiction. The cities, characters, and scenes of his fictional world are described as "events" in the development and integration of the self. The analysis, which draws on several disciplines for its insights, especially on the psychoanalytic studies of C. G. Jung, is a deliberate and detailed attempt to explore the extent to which such insights can successfully support and assist a literary analysis. Consequently no biographical context for the explications is provided. Neither Miller's knowledge of psychoanalytic theory nor the details of his personal life are the concern of this study. The focus is on the fiction itself and the actions of the mind it may dramatize. The great Miller cities of Paris and New York are seen as projections or images in which the psychic landscape of the developing self has been given fictional form. The characters are not discussed as characters familiar to readers of the novel, but as figures of the mind which borrow only their superficial characteristics from the twentieth-century scene. The nature of their form shows that many of them are aspects of one archetype against which the I of millers fiction struggles. The development of this I provides the allegorical dimension in the fictional world of Miller and becomes the subject of his confession. The frankly described sexual adventures that prevented many of Miller's works from being distributed in this country until fairly recently are identified as parts of the archetypal world. Other analyses can satisfactorily defend Miller's obscenity but recognizing the relationship between the sexual imagery and other archetypal images provides a reading that reveals the allegorical character of his fiction and the unity of its action.
Bibliography: Henry Miller
Author: Thomas Hamilton MoorePublisher: Minneapolis : Henry Miller Literary Society
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Henry Miller: His World of Urania
Author: Sydney OmarrThe Contemporary Novel
Author: Irving AdelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
In this new edition, what was already an expansive work has been updated and further enlarged to include information not only on American and British novelists but also on writers in English from around the world.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
The Time of the Assassins
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This study is not literary criticism but a fascinating chapter in Miller's own spiritual autobiography. The social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist's dilemma.
The Henry Miller Literary Society Newsletter
Author: Henry Miller Literary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Little magazines
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Books in My Life
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years. Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking––but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind. Some of Miller’s favorite writers are the giants whom most of us revere––authors such as Dostoeyvsky, Boccaccio, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Lao-Tse. To them he brings fresh and penetrating insights. But many are lesser-known figures: Krishnamurti, the prophet-sage; the French contemporaries Blaise Cendrars and Jean Giono; Richard Jeffries, who wrote The Story of My Heart; the Welshman John Cowper Powys; and scores of others. The Books in My Life contains some fine autobiographical chapters, too. Miller describes his boyhood in Brooklyn, when he devoured the historical stories of G. A. Henty and the romances of Rider Haggard. He tells of the men and women whom he regards as "living books": Lou Jacobs, W. E. B. DuBois, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and others. He offers his reminiscences of the New York Theatre in the early 1900’s––including plays such as Alias Jimmy Valentine and Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model. And finally, in Miller’s best vein of humor, he provides a satiric chapter on bathroom reading. In an appendix, Miller lists the hundred books that have influenced him most.