Henry Miller and Narrative Form

Henry Miller and Narrative Form
Title Henry Miller and Narrative Form PDF eBook
Author James Decker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 227
Release 2006-06-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 113423838X

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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.

Henry Miller and Narrative Form

Henry Miller and Narrative Form
Title Henry Miller and Narrative Form PDF eBook
Author James M. Decker
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 182
Release 2005
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780415360265

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Presenting fresh insights into some of the most challenging writings of last century, this provocative study explores the work of Henry Miller, positioning him as a stylistic pioneer whose place must be assured in the American literary canon.

Henry Miller and Narrative Form

Henry Miller and Narrative Form
Title Henry Miller and Narrative Form PDF eBook
Author James Decker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 193
Release 2006-06-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1134238398

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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 Cosmological Eye

The Cosmological Eye
Title The Cosmological Eye PDF eBook
Author Henry Miller
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 390
Release 1973
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780811201100

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A collection of prose by Henry Miller

Henry Miller on Writing

Henry Miller on Writing
Title Henry Miller on Writing PDF eBook
Author Henry Miller
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 230
Release 1964
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780811201124

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Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.

A Devil in Paradise

A Devil in Paradise
Title A Devil in Paradise PDF eBook
Author Henry Miller
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 126
Release 1993
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780811212441

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"A perfect expression of Miller's moral perspective as well as one of his outstanding demonstrations of narrative skill. It provides a wonderful cinematic view of two indomitable egotists in deadly conflict." --The Nation

Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist

Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist
Title Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist PDF eBook
Author Indrek Männiste
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 257
Release 2013-06-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1623569001

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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.