Synopses & Reviews
Academic treatments of Henry Millers works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer in literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Millers 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 16 new essays on carefully chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the most authoritative collection of essays ever published on this author.
About the Author
James M. Decker is Professor of English and Language Studies at Illinois Central College, USA. Author of Henry Miller and Narrative Form: Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005) and Ideology (2003), he edits Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal.
Indrek Männiste is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He is also a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Tartu, Estonia.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Lou Renza, Dartmouth College, USAI. ChronologyII. IntroductionIndrek Männiste,
University of Tartu, Estonia, and James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA III. Henry Miller and Philosophy
Indrek Männiste,
University of Tartu, EstoniaIV. Henry Miller and Ideology
James M. Decker, Illinois Central College, USA V. Henry Miller and Surrealism
Paul Jahshan, Notre Dame University, LebanonVI. Henry Miller and Religion
Edward Abplanalp, Illinois Central College, USAVII. Miller and Morality
Guy Stevenson, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKVIII. Miller and Linguistics
Ondrej Skovajsa, Charles University in Prague, Czech RepublicIX. Henry Miller and Feminism
Anna Lillios,
University of Central Florida, USAX. Henry Miller and Psychoanalysis
Hamish Jackson,
University of East Anglia, UKXI. Henry Miller and Orientalism
Rob Herian,
University of London, UKXII. Henry Miller and Transcendentalism
Eric Lehman,
University of Bridgeport, USA XIII. Henry Miller and Intertextuality
Sarah Garland,
University of East Anglia, UKXIV. Henry Miller and Obscenity
Jeff Bursey, essayist and author of Verbatim: A NovelXV. Henry Miller and America
Stephen Starck,
University of Oklahoma, USAXVI. Henry Miller and Art
Béa Aaronson,
University of South Carolina, USAXVII. Henry Miller and The City
Finn Jensen,
University of Copenhagen, DenmarkXVIII. Henry Miller and Trauma
James Gifford,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, USAXIX. Henry Miller and Narrative
Katy Masuga, Skidmore College, FranceSelected BibliographyIndex