Henry Miller http://henry-miller.com/ Narrative Detours: Henry Miller and the Rise of New Critical Modernism en Copyright 2013 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:52:33 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=5.2.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Henry Miller Quotes from Tropic of Capricorn "Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos." Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1938) "My people were entirely Nordic, which is to say idiots." Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-quotes-from-tropic-of-capricorn.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-quotes-from-tropic-of-capricorn.html Henry Miller Quotes Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:52:33 -0800 George Orwell on Henry Miller: Inside the Whale George Orwell's most interesting essay -- in the technical sense -- of the puzzle that is Miller's status as an author of "literature" has been posted to the web, along with the rest of Orwell's published works, by the University... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/george-orwell-on-henry-miller-inside-the-whale.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/george-orwell-on-henry-miller-inside-the-whale.html Henry Miller Sites Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:25:10 -0800 Henry Miller Quotes from Tropic of Cancer "There are no more books to be written, thank God." Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934) "There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books."... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-quotes-from-tropic-of-cancer.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-quotes-from-tropic-of-cancer.html Henry Miller Quotes Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:25:05 -0800 Henry Miller Quotes from Black Spring "What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature." Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936) "For me the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-quotes-from-black-spring.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-quotes-from-black-spring.html Henry Miller Quotes Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:25:00 -0800 Henry Miller Collectibles Just for fun and for those who haven't seen one, a few Henry Miller collectibles from my own collection. My favorites, without a doubt, are the Keimeisha editions of Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn from Tokyo.... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-collectibles.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-collectibles.html Henry Miller Books Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:08:23 -0800 Kenneth Rexroth: The Reality of Henry Miller Well worth reading, despite the blindingly tasteless turquoise background at www.bopsecrets.org, is Beat poet-translator-essayist-painter-anarchist Kenneth Rexroth's 1955 essay " The Reality of Henry Miller". Rexroth (1905-1982), sometimes called "The Godfather of the Beats," originally wrote this piece as an introduction... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/kenneth-rexroth-the-reality-of-henry-miller.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/kenneth-rexroth-the-reality-of-henry-miller.html Henry Miller Sites Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:11:26 -0800 Miller is My Epigraph What could possibly count as "news" these days about a Dead White Male Author? In searching the web for "news" about Miller, I think I have discovered at least one answer in the bloggers who choose to quote from Henry... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/miller-is-my-epigraph.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/miller-is-my-epigraph.html Henry Miller News Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:09:23 -0800 Henry Miller at Literary Traveler http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-at-literary-traveler.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-at-literary-traveler.html Henry Miller Sites Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:40:09 -0800 The Henry Miller Library at Big Sur By far the most visited Miller Site on the web, The Henry Miller Library is incommensurably better in reality. Located in Big Sur, California, 35 miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea on Highway One, the Library occupies the former home of long-time... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-henry-miller-library-at-big-sur.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-henry-miller-library-at-big-sur.html Henry Miller Sites Thu, 06 Jan 2005 03:27:44 -0800 Announcement Announcing the creation of Henry-Miller.com The primary purpose of this site is to provide a permanent, publicly accessible home for my 1989 Yale American Studies PhD dissertation: Narrative Detours: Henry Miller and the Rise of New Critical Modernism.... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/announcement.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/announcement.html Henry Miller News Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:31:00 -0800 Introduction: I want to make a detour I want to make a detour of those lofty arid mountain ranges where one dies of thirst and cold, that "extra-temporal" history, that absolute of time and space where there exists neither man, beast, nor vegetation, where one goes crazy... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-i-want-to-make-a-detour.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-i-want-to-make-a-detour.html Narrative Detours Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:28 -0800 Introduction: The Revolution of the Word Answers to these questions might be sought at any point in the history of the reception of Miller's expatriate narratives, a history which includes his subsequent novels and essays. Forty-eight years old when he returned to America after nearly a... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-the-revolution-of-the-word.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-the-revolution-of-the-word.html Narrative Detours Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:27 -0800 Introduction: Ulysses, Order, and Myth It is paradoxically Miller's attention in formulating his narrative strategy to the politics of modern aesthetic debate--his prescient engagement with that coalition of writers, critics, and theorists who would successfully reshape twentieth-century aesthetics in their own image--that has left him... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-ulysses-order-and-myth.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-ulysses-order-and-myth.html Narrative Detours Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:26 -0800 Introduction: The Genealogy of the Modernist Canon This essay proceeds as a "local study" in the history of the modern novel, using the instance of Henry Miller's Paris narratives and their ambiguous place in our received tradition to test the grounds of a literary history attentive to... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-the-genealogy-of-the-modernist-canon.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-the-genealogy-of-the-modernist-canon.html Narrative Detours Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:25 -0800 Introduction: I want to make a detour - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-i-want-to-make-a-detour-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/introduction-i-want-to-make-a-detour-notes.html Narrative Detours Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:24 -0800 THE NOVEL IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE NOVEL Thus, the novel, in contrast to other genres whose existence resides within the finished form, appears as something in process of becoming. [....] As form, the novel establishes a fluctuating yet firm balance between becoming and being; as the idea... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-novel-is-dead-long-live-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-novel-is-dead-long-live-the-novel.html I. Polemics of the Novel Form Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:23 -0800 Georg Lukacs, The Theory of the Novel Thus, the novel, in contrast to other genres whose existence resides within the finished form, appears as something in process of becoming. [....] As form, the novel establishes a fluctuating yet firm balance between becoming and being; as the idea... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/georg-lukacs-the-theory-of-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/georg-lukacs-the-theory-of-the-novel.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:22 -0800 The Meta-Fiction of the Novel http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-meta-fiction-of-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-meta-fiction-of-the-novel.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:21 -0800 George Eliot, Middlemarch George Eliot framed Middlemarch as an inquiry into the determining effect of "the conditions of an imperfect social state" upon the individual's nature and potential.[10] She went on, in an oft-quoted passage, to explain her novelistic practice to be a... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/george-eliot-middlemarch.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/george-eliot-middlemarch.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:20 -0800 Henry James, The Future of the Novel Henry James is often celebrated for elaborating the relation between the novel's form and authorial consciousness, but seldom for his equally strong sense of the intimate relation between the novel's form and history. In 1899, speaking of "The Future of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-james-the-future-of-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-james-the-future-of-the-novel.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:19 -0800 Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Eliot asserts the meta-fiction that ascribes the novel's formal innovations to the force of history in her many authorial asides. James is willing to "suppose" it throughout his many essays. By contrast, Hemingway presents the case of a writer who... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/hemingway-a-farewell-to-arms.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/hemingway-a-farewell-to-arms.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:18 -0800 Transforming and Relegitimating the Historical Genre http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/transforming-and-relegitimating-the-historical-genre.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/transforming-and-relegitimating-the-historical-genre.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:17 -0800 Gramsci, The Modern Prince In analyzing the local struggle among publishers, critics, and writers to define the meaning of the modernist venture, Antonio Gramsci's concept of "hegemony," with some adaptation, will prove useful. Hegemony derives from the Greek egemonia and egemon--a leader, a ruler;... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/gramsci-the-modern-prince.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/gramsci-the-modern-prince.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:16 -0800 Van Wyck Brooks, A Usable Past To speak of the hegemony of New Critical modernism is to recognize that the major obstacle to a recovery of the multivocal critical and literary history of the novel is the very success with which a relatively small group of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/van-wyck-brooks-a-usable-past.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/van-wyck-brooks-a-usable-past.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:15 -0800 The Historical Genre: Crititical and Practical Discourse - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-historical-genre-crititical-and-practical-discourse-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-historical-genre-crititical-and-practical-discourse-notes.html 1. The Historical Genre: Critical and Practical Discourse Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:14 -0800 Charles Feidelson, Symbolism and American Literature We are most inclined to imagine ideological creation as some inner process of understanding, comprehension, and perception, and do not notice that it in fact unfolds externally, for the eye, the ear, the hand. It is not within us, but... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/charles-feidelson-symbolism-and-american-literature.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/charles-feidelson-symbolism-and-american-literature.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:13 -0800 New Criticism's Modernist Canon In this chapter, I wish to explore the questions posed by New Criticism, that is, the "frame of reference" within which this particular strain of early twentieth-century criticism sought to find meaning and hence attribute value to literary texts. The... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/new-criticisms-modernist-canon.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/new-criticisms-modernist-canon.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:12 -0800 M. M. Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel In 1934, M. M. Bakhtin, whose criticism of Russian formalism embraced the related constellation of European critical movements upon which British-American New Criticism also drew--French symbolism, German formalism, and the Geneva School--described the ways in which this integration was initially... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/m-m-bakhtin-discourse-in-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/m-m-bakhtin-discourse-in-the-novel.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:11 -0800 T. S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley Although it is convenient to speak of these changes as a "poeticization of the novel," the application of concepts based in the study of poetry did not result in a confusion of genres. Edmund Wilson may have written that Joyce's... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/t-s-eliot-edmund-wilson-malcolm-cowley.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/t-s-eliot-edmund-wilson-malcolm-cowley.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:10 -0800 I. A. Richards, Psychological Theory of Value The New Critical genealogy with which Cleanth Brooks opens Modern Poetry and the Tradition--Eliot, Tate, Empson, Yeats, Ransom, Blackmur, Richards--encompasses two oscillating poles between and with respect to which "good" organization is understood. First, the text has a "structure" because... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-a-richards-psychological-theory-of-value.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-a-richards-psychological-theory-of-value.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:09 -0800 Modernist Symbolism: Ulysses and Moby-Dick The mode of organization New Criticism detects and the mode in which its canonical writers encode their texts posits a metaphysical hierarchy, at the apex of which stands, ambiguously, the self-sufficient text or the consciousness of the reading writer. This... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/modernist-symbolism-ulysses-and-moby-dick.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/modernist-symbolism-ulysses-and-moby-dick.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:08 -0800 Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce's Ulysses In the case of Ulysses, the relation between critical discourse and novelistic practice was closer than kinship. We may speak of a "confluence" of the novel's two discourses legitimating a paradigmatic "New Novel" in more than a metaphoric sense: One... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/stuart-gilbert-james-joyces-ulysses.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/stuart-gilbert-james-joyces-ulysses.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:07 -0800 T. S. Eliot: Ulysses, Order, and Myth Before attending to the imaginative consequences of the critical and literary consensus Gilbert and Joyce forged in 1930, we would do well to consider its direct inspiration: T. S. Eliot's 1923 essay, "Ulysses, Order, and Myth." Eliot's Dial essay makes... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/t-s-eliot-ulysses-order-and-myth.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/t-s-eliot-ulysses-order-and-myth.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:06 -0800 James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The same consequences for modern narrative and narrative analysis flow from the Joycean aesthetic Stuart Gilbert adopted at the beginning of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as the key to proper interpretation: In his earlier autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:05 -0800 Eugene Jolas: transition, Poetry is Vertical Joyce and Gilbert were not alone in conceiving the "rhythm of beauty" as the proper order of the text, the mind, and Nature. Others took up the cause. While publishing Joyce's "Work in Progress," the Paris-based magazine transition followed its... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/eugene-jolas-transition-poetry-is-vertical.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/eugene-jolas-transition-poetry-is-vertical.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:04 -0800 M. M. Bakhtin: The Forms of Time and Chronotrope in the Novel One would like to believe that M. M. Bakhtin had obtained a copy of transition 21 and was replying to Jolas and Gillet when he wrote critically of Dante's "vertical axis" of symbolic interpretation in 1937-38. Otherwise, Bakhtin's analysis is... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/m-m-bakhtin-the-forms-of-time-and-chronotrope-in-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/m-m-bakhtin-the-forms-of-time-and-chronotrope-in-the-novel.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:03 -0800 Peter Brooks: Reading for the Plot Observing the legacy of this struggle, Peter Brooks has summed up the fate of narrative under the hegemony of New Critical modernism in Reading for the Plot: "Reading for the plot," we learned somewhere in the course of our schooling,... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/peter-brooks-reading-for-the-plot.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/peter-brooks-reading-for-the-plot.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:02 -0800 Symbolism, Point of View, and Mythic Structure In recent years, the value of the canon produced by the alliance of New Critical modernism has been openly challenged, now inside as well as outside the academy. Historical studies of the vast bodies of "unconsciousness" literature largely excluded from... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/symbolism-point-of-view-and-mythic-structure.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/symbolism-point-of-view-and-mythic-structure.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:01 -0800 New Critical Symbolism New Critical Symbolism The analysis of symbolism, assimilated to the novel by way of poetics, has been the forte of New Criticism since its inception. The use of symbolism, rather than plot, to structure the text is the proverbial hallmark... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/new-critical-symbolism.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/new-critical-symbolism.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:02:00 -0800 Henry James on Joseph Conrad New Critical Point of View If Miller's writing disrupts symbolic readings, it wrecks similar havoc upon analyses of point of view that seek to integrate the text as a figure for the mind of its creator, its narrator(s), or its... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-james-on-joseph-conrad.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-james-on-joseph-conrad.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:59 -0800 New Critical Point of View There are few means of disputing James' invocation of the meta-fiction of the novel short of asserting that "reality" is otherwise than he insinuates, that is, that Conrad's material--the story he seeks to tell, the characters he seeks to render--does... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/new-critical-point-of-view.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/new-critical-point-of-view.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:58 -0800 A Welter of Crisscrossed Tracks Miller's meandering anecdotal narrative is resistant to this type of reading. While theoretically possible, it is in practice most difficult to discover the missing elements that might lend completed "roundness" to Miller's narratives. The narrative leaps and jumps assume so... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-welter-of-crisscrossed-tracks.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-welter-of-crisscrossed-tracks.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:57 -0800 Mythic Method and the Shape of the Story Mythic Method and the Shape of the Story The aesthetic legitimacy of Miller's narrative claims cannot be comprehended by a criticism that tends to equate narrative with primitive storytelling, with the chronological relation of events as they "happened," or "happened... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/mythic-method-and-the-shape-of-the-story.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/mythic-method-and-the-shape-of-the-story.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:56 -0800 Northrop Frye: Anatomy of Criticism These "archaic" patterns are discernible as elements within the "historical genre," but only if one "backs up," as Northrop Frye says in his influential treatment of the "shape of the story" in his Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957). Frye... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/northrop-frye-anatomy-of-criticism.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/northrop-frye-anatomy-of-criticism.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:55 -0800 We have no need for genius--genius is dead. Neither Eliot's mythic method nor its subsequent modifications in light of Russian formalism can come to grips with Miller's narrative. By "narrative," I mean the surface sequence of the text, composed not just of events and anecdotes, but of transitory... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/we-have-no-need-for-genius-genius-is-dead.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/we-have-no-need-for-genius-genius-is-dead.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:54 -0800 Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller With the loosening of the hegemony of New Criticism, we have come to understand that the very notion of the story as an elementary, chronological, closed, rigidly formal genre is a product of the discourse that hails the rise of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/walter-benjamin-the-storyteller.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/walter-benjamin-the-storyteller.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:53 -0800 Henry Miller's Paris Narratives It is because New Criticism has had to efface narrative in order to reread and rewrite literary history as its own that narrative analysis provides the opportunity to historicize New Critical modernism without "correcting" it. For, even with respect to... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-millers-paris-narratives.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-millers-paris-narratives.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:52 -0800 Nothing is diminished by being historicized But, just as narrative is not a primitive, unchanged literary archetype, there is no "pure" narrativity hovering in the void outside New Critical structure and symbolism. To project Tropic of Cancer into some alternative modernist realm of pure narrative, untouched... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/nothing-is-diminished-by-being-historicized.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/nothing-is-diminished-by-being-historicized.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:51 -0800 The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-hegemony-of-new-critical-modernism-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-hegemony-of-new-critical-modernism-notes.html 2. The Hegemony of New Critical Modernism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:50 -0800 Only the myth lives in myth But the question, it seems to me, is this: are we born Hamlets? Were you born Hamlet? Or did you not rather create the type in yourself? Whether this be so or not, what seems infinitely more important is--why revert... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/only-the-myth-lives-in-myth.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/only-the-myth-lives-in-myth.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:49 -0800 Theodore Dreiser: Twelve Men Of greater consequence to Miller's literary development was an encounter in San Diego with Emma Goldman and her lecture-circuit companion Ben Reitman. They turned Miller toward the social and aesthetic vision of the European realists and naturalists. In the ensuing... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/theodore-dreiser-twelve-men.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/theodore-dreiser-twelve-men.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:48 -0800 Michael Fraenkel: Write as you talk, I told him. Henry Miller's improvident expatriation to Paris was intended to precipitate a crisis.[21] It did. In Paris he fell in with a group of writers and intellectuals thoroughly versed in what the expatriate magazine transition, inspired by Ulysses and Joyce's "Work... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/michael-fraenkel-write-as-you-talk-i-told-him.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/michael-fraenkel-write-as-you-talk-i-told-him.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:47 -0800 The age demands violence Miller's antagonistic encounter with the writers to which Fraenkel guided him brought him to something of a historical understanding of modernism, which is only to say that Miller began to grasp the meta-fiction every novelist implicitly understands. "The Revolution of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-age-demands-violence.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-age-demands-violence.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:46 -0800 Emerson and Whitman The particular autobiographical mode upon which Miller settled--the temporally digressive, first-person narrative style of Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn--was crucial to this process of literary-historical revelation as Miller understood it. His previous novelistic efforts in New... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/emerson-and-whitman.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/emerson-and-whitman.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:45 -0800 My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach Miller's diagnosis of the condition of the modern novel is invisible without an understanding of the two means by which Miller "naturalizes" the critical discourse of Tropic of Cancer within the "unnatural" urban world the novel represents: caricature and obscenity.... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/my-voice-goes-after-what-my-eyes-cannot-reach.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/my-voice-goes-after-what-my-eyes-cannot-reach.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:44 -0800 Tropic of Cancer's Genito-Urinary System At the conclusion of Tropic of Cancer, Miller offers an oblique apology for his method. For a brief moment he figures the whole human self within a Romantic landscape: In the wonderful peace that fell over me it seemed as... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/tropic-of-cancers-genito-urinary-system.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/tropic-of-cancers-genito-urinary-system.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:43 -0800 Otto Rank: Art and Artist. The historical polemic driving Miller's transitive symbolism was inspired in significant part by discussions with Otto Rank, who had migrated to Paris in the 1920s, after publication of his The Trauma of Birth precipitated a break with Freud. In March... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/otto-rank-art-and-artist.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/otto-rank-art-and-artist.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:42 -0800 Paris is simply an artificial stage In Tropic of Cancer Miller deploys a series of shifting figures in which Paris appears first, as "the cradle of artificial births," then, as "an artificial stage": "It is not accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/paris-is-simply-an-artificial-stage.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/paris-is-simply-an-artificial-stage.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:41 -0800 Mister Nonentity Miller's autobiographical writing makes it easy to misread Tropic of Cancer--to read it under the aesthetics of American Romanticism or New Critical modernism. Miller appears self-absorbed in familiar ways: his narrative is most offensively first person. But his voice eludes... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/mister-nonentity.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/mister-nonentity.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:40 -0800 Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray This shift was not without precedent. In challenging Emerson, Miller made use of his recent explorations of literary history. His paraphrase of Emerson follows Oscar Wilde, who, in The Portrait of Dorian Gray, had Lord Henry explain the task of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/oscar-wilde-the-portrait-of-dorian-gray.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/oscar-wilde-the-portrait-of-dorian-gray.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:39 -0800 Not a Stable Equilibrium, but a Fluid Imbalance In Hamlet, Miller recasts Emerson's poet/God. The novelist must follow another course: To carry on the artist must act as God at the dawn of creation. [....] Nothing can rear itself organically any longer. [....] Henceforth, he moves with dead... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/not-a-stable-equilibrium-but-a-fluid-imbalance.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/not-a-stable-equilibrium-but-a-fluid-imbalance.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:38 -0800 The Pure Flux and Rotation of Events Reviewing his Paris narratives in The World of Sex, Miller explained the autobiographical mode he settled upon: The man telling the story is no longer the one who experienced the events recorded. Distortion and deformation are unavoidable in the re-living... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-pure-flux-and-rotation-of-events.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-pure-flux-and-rotation-of-events.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:37 -0800 Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/miller-and-the-emerging-modernist-canon-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/miller-and-the-emerging-modernist-canon-notes.html 3. Miller and the Emerging Modernist Canon Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:36 -0800 Frank Kermode: Puzzles and Epiphanies One of the simpler aspects of this technique--a device which for all its apparent artificiality, exactly resembles Nature's method--is the presentation of fragments of a theme or allusion in different parts of the work; these fragments have to be assimilated... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/frank-kermode-puzzles-and-epiphanies.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/frank-kermode-puzzles-and-epiphanies.html II. Narrative Detours: Strategy and Device Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:35 -0800 Kermode on Miller: Continuous Movement Kermode's analysis is correct: Miller's narrative, "incapable of any rest, dependent on continuous movement," does "deny 'form' and mesure"--if by "'form' and mesure" one understands no more than Kermode is willing to admit. As we saw in the second chapter,... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/kermode-on-miller-continuous-movement.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/kermode-on-miller-continuous-movement.html II. Narrative Detours: Strategy and Device Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:34 -0800 Literature: Language as a System of Social Evaluations What is necessary in Miller's case is illustrative of the general proposition that a historical inquiry which takes the relation between novelistic practice and critical discourse as its object must subsume even the "nature" of tropes under historical analysis. If... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/literature-language-as-a-system-of-social-evaluations.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/literature-language-as-a-system-of-social-evaluations.html II. Narrative Detours: Strategy and Device Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:33 -0800 Jack Kahane, Ezra Pound, Tropic of Cancer The Miller of Paris in the 1930s was not the "sage" of subsequent years, just as the Miller of Paris was not the Dreiserian moralist of years prior in New York.[13] A relation that becomes elusive with the passage of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/jack-kahane-ezra-pound-tropic-of-cancer.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/jack-kahane-ezra-pound-tropic-of-cancer.html II. Narrative Detours: Strategy and Device Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:32 -0800 Narrative Detours: Strategy and Device - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/narrative-detours-strategy-and-device-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/narrative-detours-strategy-and-device-notes.html II. Narrative Detours: Strategy and Device Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:31 -0800 Cleo dances every night! To all who are suffering, to all who are weary and heavy-laden, to every son of a bitch dying with eczema, halitosis, gangrene, dropsy, be it remembered, sealed and affixed that the side entrance is free. Come ye one and... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cleo-dances-every-night.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cleo-dances-every-night.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:30 -0800 Black Spring: Burlesk In Black Spring's "Burlesk," Miller emphasizes burlesque's capacity to level, to collapse and gather together on one stage before one audience, the heights and depths of the social order and of human experience. To his "cleanest, fastest show ever produced... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/black-spring-burlesk.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/black-spring-burlesk.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:29 -0800 Meet the Mythical World with Cunning and High Spirits The "cleanest, fastest show" promises for Miller and his urban audience something of what storytelling promised for Walter Benjamin's "storyteller" and his community of listeners: not an escape from reality, but a magical escape into a community of survivors. "And... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/meet-the-mythical-world-with-cunning-and-high-spirits.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/meet-the-mythical-world-with-cunning-and-high-spirits.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:28 -0800 The Rogue, the Clown and the Fool Burlesque caricatures that which it critiques: it unmasks through mimicry. To this extent the burlesque comedian is the post-industrial descendent of the pre-industrial folk figures M. M. Bakhtin called up out of Rabelais to dispute the Formalists' valuation of the... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-rogue-the-clown-and-the-fool.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-rogue-the-clown-and-the-fool.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:27 -0800 D. H. Lawrence: Studies in Classic American Literature Miller's literary burlesque of the modes of subjectivity structured by Romantic vision and Modernist irony plays upon his readers' familiarity with the signs and attendant interpretive conventions of Romantic and Modernist texts. The very facility--strangely capable and facile--with which he... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/d-h-lawrence-studies-in-classic-american-literature.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/d-h-lawrence-studies-in-classic-american-literature.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:26 -0800 I'm a man, not a louse What does it mean, Miller's aesthetic sermon asks, "to be a man" in a world of hunger: But I don't ask to go back to America, to be put in double harness again, to work the treadmill. No, I prefer... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/im-a-man-not-a-louse.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/im-a-man-not-a-louse.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:25 -0800 A world without hope, but no despair The entire episode is exemplary burlesque humor. It begins with the most sublime of man's aspirations, to locate his very being in thought, and twists the logic of that aspiration into a perverse affirmation of man's animal nature: man is... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-world-without-hope-but-no-despair.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-world-without-hope-but-no-despair.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:24 -0800 I. A. Richards: The Principles of Literary Criticism In Richards' usage, as in the discourse of New Critical modernism generally, irony is disassociated from a rhetorical tradition of hyperbole, ridicule and rebuttal to become a trope of ambiguity, indeterminacy, and knowing, tragic indecision.[46] Richards invokes Swift, but Richards'... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-a-richards-the-principles-of-literary-criticism.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-a-richards-the-principles-of-literary-criticism.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:23 -0800 Tragedy: Equilibrium of Ironical Contemplation In an effort to naturalize his ironic "machine" Richards roams as far afield as Miller's wildest speculations. Intent upon translating irony from a trope of Satire to a trope of Tragedy, he leaves Swift for Coleridge, whose "magical" definition of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/tragedy-equilibrium-of-ironical-contemplation.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/tragedy-equilibrium-of-ironical-contemplation.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:22 -0800 Burlesque Sarcasm and Satire The burlesque sarcasm of Miller's "fluid imbalance" attempts to "head off," so to speak, the recovery of "stable equilibrium" that Modernist irony seeks. Unlike Richards' "Tragic" reformulation of Swiftean irony, Miller's still sarcastic satire does not take the measure of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/burlesque-sarcasm-and-satire.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/burlesque-sarcasm-and-satire.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:21 -0800 Swimming in an Ideological Ether Miller's words are formed oppositionally, but he pointedly explains that any such opposition is transitive, not permanent. Though Miller's words resolve in opposition to structured concepts, they do not become, by virtue of opposing structured concepts, a potentially "complementary" structure.... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/swimming-in-an-ideological-ether.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/swimming-in-an-ideological-ether.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:20 -0800 They will make Joyce palatable, understandable This passage from "The Universe of Death" recapitulates the Moldorf/God burlesque of Tropic of Cancer, where Miller pokes holes in Moldorf's weltanschauung. Miller recognized Joyce's comic genius, and sought to read all of Ulysses as an intellectual burlesque after his... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/they-will-make-joyce-palatable-understandable.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/they-will-make-joyce-palatable-understandable.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:19 -0800 Get off the gold standard of literature Miller's admiration for Joyce was as great as was his antagonism. Like so many contemporary and subsequent writers, Miller took Ulysses as the challenge to the modern novelist. But his response--unlike, for example, Thomas Pynchon, whose rivalry with Joyce is... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/get-off-the-gold-standard-of-literature.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/get-off-the-gold-standard-of-literature.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:18 -0800 Burlesque v. Irony - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/burlesque-v-irony-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/burlesque-v-irony-notes.html 4. Burlesque v. Irony Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:17 -0800 We walk split into myriad fragments Shall I at least set my lands in order? [....] These fragments I have shored against my ruins T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land No sign. Gone. What matter? He walked back along Dorset street, reading gravely. [....] Nothing doing.... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/we-walk-split-into-myriad-fragments.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/we-walk-split-into-myriad-fragments.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:16 -0800 The cancer of time is eating us away Tropic of Cancer opens upon the question of technique: times being what they are, upon what mode of comprehension may a literature, a life, a world be built? As throughout Miller's work, this critical issue is posed parodically and explored... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-cancer-of-time-is-eating-us-away.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-cancer-of-time-is-eating-us-away.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:15 -0800 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land In place of the syncretism of Eliot and Joyce's bricolage, Miller's "spots of time" speak with an insistently transitive logic, their sense always awaiting qualification, if not completion, further along his rambles through a "cosmos--on the flat." But joined in... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/t-s-eliot-the-waste-land.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/t-s-eliot-the-waste-land.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:14 -0800 Crazy Cock, Germaine, Mademoiselle Claude Miller's use of anecdote to construct and defend a twentieth-century reality reduced to "spots of time" is followed easiest through one of the fragments cannibalized from his earlier work and "sandwiched" into the third, untitled "chapter" (pages 34 to 43)... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/crazy-cock-germaine-mademoiselle-claude.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/crazy-cock-germaine-mademoiselle-claude.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:13 -0800 The Faubourg St. Germain With the reiteration of Germaine's difference, all semblance of sincerity and verisimilitude abruptly gives way to a jumbled rush of every mismatched convention of the "man loves prostitute" genre. Miller confesses to have written about Germaine before, concealing her identity... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-faubourg-st-germain.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-faubourg-st-germain.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:12 -0800 A Man Cut in Slices! Miller's further ambles bring further qualifications in his critique of the visionary tradition as he glances upon the aesthetic programs of his living rivals, or rather his living-dead rivals. As rain begins to fall the scene is transformed into one... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-man-cut-in-slices.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-man-cut-in-slices.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:11 -0800 Narrative Method vs. Mythic Method As Miller makes his final approach to the story of Germaine his narrative polemic turns upon Modern novelists' efforts to reshape the techniques of the visionary tradition so that symbolism might capture the temporal extension of Man's being. The presiding... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/narrative-method-vs-mythic-method.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/narrative-method-vs-mythic-method.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:10 -0800 Spots of Time in a Cosmos-on the Flat Tropic of Cancer is "bad" New Critical modernism, and quite deliberately so.[48] Miller's narrative proves resistant to New Critical appropriation, but not because his narrative art was, at its inception, uncannily "post-modern"; nor in explanation of his narrative's systematic disruption... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/spots-of-time-in-a-cosmos-on-the-flat.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/spots-of-time-in-a-cosmos-on-the-flat.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:09 -0800 Unreal City Eliot's initial invocation of the "Unreal City" proceeds in two phases. The first presents the urban landscape as one of meaningless surface flow in order that the second might offer, where poetic anecdote might suffice, a dialectic of visionary death... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/unreal-city.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/unreal-city.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:08 -0800 Intellectual trees - Like T. S. Eliot's verse. Miller accepts The Waste Land, the structure in disintegration, the "heap of broken images" of the modern urban world. The climate of the time is indisputable. But in contesting the "lock step" of the "Unreal City," in making a hero... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/intellectual-trees-like-t-s-eliots-verse.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/intellectual-trees-like-t-s-eliots-verse.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:07 -0800 Ulysses: Bloom's moist tender gland The common discourse within which Eliot and Miller sought to advance rival modernisms--albeit one poetic, the other novelistic--is fully in evidence throughout Ulysses, but is perhaps best exemplified in a passage from early on, from the breakfast excursion which serves... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ulysses-blooms-moist-tender-gland.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ulysses-blooms-moist-tender-gland.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:06 -0800 Ulysses: the grey sunken cunt of the world By the end of this narrative reading there is, indeed, "nothing doing." The "doing" of the chronicled purchase has been left behind, displaced by a search for the "idea behind it." But what is still an uncertain, meandering search on... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ulysses-the-grey-sunken-cunt-of-the-world.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ulysses-the-grey-sunken-cunt-of-the-world.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:05 -0800 The Angel is My Watermark In "The Angel is My Watermark" in Black Spring, Miller produces his own version of narrative in quest of symbolic meaning. Parodying both surrealist painting and mythic method, he describes an attempt to invest his own painting with psychological "depth"... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-angel-is-my-watermark.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-angel-is-my-watermark.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:04 -0800 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives Tropic of Cancer argues a paradigm shift from the vertical axis of vision to the horizontal "meridian of time." In doing so it not only calls into question the "Modernism" of synecdochic symbolism and mythic method, but also the "post-modernism"... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/gertrude-stein-three-lives.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/gertrude-stein-three-lives.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:03 -0800 The Crack: an Arabian zero Miller's second derivation of anecdotal narrative from the zeroed self makes clear his dissent from the tradition that draws upon Poe. His zero is an "Arabian zero" rather than a Hellenic zero, algebraic rather than arithmetic: When I look down... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-crack-an-arabian-zero.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-crack-an-arabian-zero.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:02 -0800 Ulysses is like vomit spilled by a delicate child Miller's most effective counter to the hierarchical tropes that conventionally coalesce around the subject/object dichotomy lies in his rendition of the live city, not as ambiguously male and female, but as the thing that flows which is neither Nature nor... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ulysses-is-like-vomit-spilled-by-a-delicate-child.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ulysses-is-like-vomit-spilled-by-a-delicate-child.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:01 -0800 Anecdote v. Image - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/anecdote-v-image-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/anecdote-v-image-notes.html 5. Anecdote v. Image Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:01:00 -0800 I love everything that flows "I love everything that flows," said the great blind Milton of our times. I was thinking of him this morning when I awoke with a great bloody shout of joy: I was thinking of his rivers and trees and all... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-love-everything-that-flows.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-love-everything-that-flows.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:59 -0800 A crepuscular melange of all the cities of Europe and Central America Short of following the detours of Miller's writing through extended quotation, it is difficult to describe Miller's flowing, narrative modulations from anecdote to diatribe. My analytic tools, when all is said and done, are by and large still New Critical:... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-crepuscular-melange-of-all-the-cities-of-europe-and-central-america.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-crepuscular-melange-of-all-the-cities-of-europe-and-central-america.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:58 -0800 Cataclysmic in design Paris, New York, the world-city Miller inhabits, and upon whose inescapable reality he insists, is a product of advanced industrial capitalism--neither an unplanned accident nor the product of one central plan.[6] Miller does not state as much directly, but it... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cataclysmic-in-design.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cataclysmic-in-design.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:57 -0800 Veridic moments of time without space Miller's visionary prelude to his roller coaster ride through the "crepuscular melange" of cities specifies the site of his frenetic diatribes. This site is historical in two senses, as the brief comparison of Miller's and Melville's use of the figure... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/veridic-moments-of-time-without-space.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/veridic-moments-of-time-without-space.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:56 -0800 Ahab's monomania Miller's "veridic moments" are distributed throughout Tropic of Cancer. These moments tremble on the surface of the down-to-earth anecdotal prose, always threatening to race off with the narrative, such that one cannot neatly categorize sections of Tropic of Cancer--these parts... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ahabs-monomania.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/ahabs-monomania.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:55 -0800 Oomaharumooma - Everything has to have a name Alone, with a tremendous empty longing and dread. The whole room for my thoughts. Nothing but myself and what I think, what I fear. Could think the most fantastic thoughts, could dance, spit, grimace, curse, wail--nobody would ever know, no... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/oomaharumooma-everything-has-to-have-a-name.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/oomaharumooma-everything-has-to-have-a-name.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:54 -0800 I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH AMOROUS LOVE I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH AMOROUS LOVE. CHUFF! CHUFF! CHUFF! CHU-CHU-CHU-CHU-CHUFF! Reminds one of a steam-engine. A locomotive. They're the only things that seem to me to ache with amorous love. All that steam inside them. Forty million foot-pounds... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-am-he-that-aches-with-amorous-love.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/i-am-he-that-aches-with-amorous-love.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:53 -0800 Jame Joyce, The great blind Milton of our times By turning sight into a site, Miller enables his own narrative "detour" around the aesthetics of the emerging modernist canon. Again, it is Joyce that Miller has in mind when he announces his detour, and not simply Joyce, but Joyce... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/jame-joyce-the-great-blind-milton-of-our-times.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/jame-joyce-the-great-blind-milton-of-our-times.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:52 -0800 Molly Bloom lying on a dirty mattress for eternity Structurally, or as Miller says, "archaeologically," the first act of Bloom's day out on the town is the same as the last before he returns home--the purchase of the gland is an overlay not only of Palestine but of the... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/molly-bloom-lying-on-a-dirty-mattress-for-eternity.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/molly-bloom-lying-on-a-dirty-mattress-for-eternity.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:51 -0800 Vaginal Laughter If Miller's narration circles about Joyce's final image of the "grey, sunken cunt of the world," it is a circling "on the flat," in the hope of deriving the destructive, leveling, and generative power of what Miller would later call... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/vaginal-laughter.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/vaginal-laughter.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:50 -0800 The Humor of Rabelais and Joyce Miller criticizes Joyce for hesitation, for remaining on the "carapace" paralyzed by horror. He accuses Joyce of structuring his text about the image of the "grey sunken cunt of the world," rather than "Molly Bloom lying on a dirty mattress... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-humor-of-rabelais-and-joyce.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-humor-of-rabelais-and-joyce.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:49 -0800 Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy The burlesque, anecdotes and diatribes of Tropic of Cancer flow together in a narrative time that is neither mimetic, retrospective, nor surreal. What is left of the world are "spots of time," "intervals" which cannot be dated or remembered as... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/do-anything-but-let-it-yield-ecstasy.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/do-anything-but-let-it-yield-ecstasy.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:48 -0800 To overthrow existing values Miller awakens to discover a temporal narrative realm beyond the poetic figuration of the self, the city and the literary past in terms of presence and absence, fullness and emptiness. He asserts that no longer is it necessary to create... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/to-overthrow-existing-values.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/to-overthrow-existing-values.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:47 -0800 Diatribe v. Epiphany - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/diatribe-v-epiphany-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/diatribe-v-epiphany-notes.html 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:46 -0800 Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. I like to dwell on this period when things were taking shape because the order, if it were understood, must have been dazzling. As to what... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/confusion-is-a-word-we-have-invented-for-an-order-which-is-not-understood.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/confusion-is-a-word-we-have-invented-for-an-order-which-is-not-understood.html III. Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:45 -0800 A new Bible - The Last Book "The heating and cooling system is one system, and Cancer is separated from Capricorn only by an imaginary line," Miller writes in Tropic of Capricorn.[8] It is his recognition of Tropic of Cancer's partiality. Embracing but one hemisphere, the figural... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-new-bible-the-last-book.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-new-bible-the-last-book.html III. Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:44 -0800 Henry Miller's Narrative Modernism The "one system" of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn is a rhetorical system, a global system of persuasion invoking both halves of the meta-fiction of the historical genre: the true novel is distinguished from all other genres and... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-millers-narrative-modernism.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-millers-narrative-modernism.html III. Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:43 -0800 The model for the age that Joyce and Stein are searching for By "rhetoric of the Real" I refer to those elements of a novel's imaginary world which persuade readers that the novelist's formal innovations are not mere formalities, but necessitated by the larger, "true" historical reality the author seeks to reveal... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-model-for-the-age-that-joyce-and-stein-are-searching-for.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-model-for-the-age-that-joyce-and-stein-are-searching-for.html III. Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:42 -0800 The Great Gatsby and Tropic of Capricorn In the first of two chapters, I intend to explore the rhetorical significance of Miller's representational work by contrasting Tropic of Capricorn's "New York" with the "New York" of another novel set during the 1920s: The Great Gatsby. Despite the... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-great-gatsby-and-tropic-of-capricorn.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-great-gatsby-and-tropic-of-capricorn.html III. Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:41 -0800 Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/narrative-detours-the-rhetoric-of-the-real-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/narrative-detours-the-rhetoric-of-the-real-notes.html III. Narrative Detours: The Rhetoric of the Real Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:40 -0800 The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge To have money in the pocket in the midst of white, neutral energy, to walk meaningless and unfecundated through the bright glitter of the calcimined streets, to think aloud in full solitude on the edge of madness, to be of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-city-seen-from-the-queensboro-bridge.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-city-seen-from-the-queensboro-bridge.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:39 -0800 Oswald Spengler: The Decline of the West In brief, Spengler's theory of the natural "morphology of forms" envisions the history of every "people" as an inevitable process of growth and decay. Living "Cultures" become dead "Civilizations," and this "macrocosmic" devolution proceeds apace on a "microcosmic" level: organic... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/oswald-spengler-the-decline-of-the-west.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/oswald-spengler-the-decline-of-the-west.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:38 -0800 Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of North America In Tropic of Capricorn Miller shares Nick's fear of being, in truth, a statistical everyman. Like Nick, the personnel director of the "Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of North America" is a listener, an urban sharer of the "plagiaristic," "secret griefs of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cosmodemonic-telegraph-company-of-north-america.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cosmodemonic-telegraph-company-of-north-america.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:37 -0800 A nightmare producing the greatest misery of the greatest number Commodity Desire A culture of consumption is fundamental to the "reality" of both The Great Gatsby and Tropic of Capricorn. In the aftermath of "The Great War" Nick pursues the bond business, but he does so on the side, as... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-nightmare-producing-the-greatest-misery-of-the-greatest-number.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-nightmare-producing-the-greatest-misery-of-the-greatest-number.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:36 -0800 Daisy, her actual and astounding presence The Great Gatsby and Tropic of Capricorn are complicit in the culture of consumption from which they draw forms of commodity desire as tropes for their own aesthetic structures, but this complicity requires careful delineation. Clearly, it does not preclude... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/daisy-her-actual-and-astounding-presence.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/daisy-her-actual-and-astounding-presence.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:35 -0800 Life drifting by the show window Miller identifies a form of commodity desire radically distinct from Fitzgerald's symbolizing desire as constitutive of America's culture of consumption. In Tropic of Capricorn commodity desire is structured by chaotic excess rather than absence, by superfluity rather than loss, by... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/life-drifting-by-the-show-window.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/life-drifting-by-the-show-window.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:34 -0800 The Great Gatsby: Owl-Eyes To supplement the persuasion of the commodity tropes appearing throughout The Great Gatsby and Tropic of Capricorn, each novel contains a more elaborate commodity analogue of its structure which, mediating between the novel's represented reality and its formal aesthetics, advances... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-great-gatsby-owl-eyes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-great-gatsby-owl-eyes.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:33 -0800 In the chaos of Bloomingdale's there is an order Tropic of Capricorn's mediating structural analogue is less compact than that of The Great Gatsby, distributed across the "one system" that is Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. It is not symbolism but a journey that, in each of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/in-the-chaos-of-bloomingdales-there-is-an-order.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/in-the-chaos-of-bloomingdales-there-is-an-order.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:32 -0800 In Bloomingdale's I fall apart completely It is to Bloomingdale's that Miller traces the "origin" of the "Arabian zero" that becomes the "writing machine" of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn: There is a condition of misery which is irremediable--because its origin is lost in... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/in-bloomingdales-i-fall-apart-completely.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/in-bloomingdales-i-fall-apart-completely.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:31 -0800 Hurrying toward gayety and sharing their intimate excitement Sexual Desire In constructing the fictive worlds of The Great Gatsby and Tropic of Capricorn, neither Fitzgerald nor Miller leaves the discourse of patriarchy. Just as their characters cross paths in the same the high vision of New York... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/hurrying-toward-gayety-and-sharing-their-intimate-excitement.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/hurrying-toward-gayety-and-sharing-their-intimate-excitement.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:30 -0800 The discourse of patriarchy: necessarily varied, protean The discourse of patriarchy, though unified in its devaluation of women and women's experience, is necessarily a varied, protean thing. Were it merely a reflection of inequitable distributions of economic and social power and prestige, the discourse would be without... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-discourse-of-patriarchy-necessarily-varied-protean.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-discourse-of-patriarchy-necessarily-varied-protean.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:29 -0800 A generalized exchange of women The Great Gatsby contemplates the possibility of a generalized exchange of women (and commodities) which would create metaphoric bonds among its men stronger than the anonymous bonds of secret-sharing Nick encounters in the faces of New York. The novel's "plot"... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-generalized-exchange-of-women.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-generalized-exchange-of-women.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:28 -0800 Enjoying nothing, desiring nothing but this power In Miller's world the exchange of women among men produces no perceived value--not because women ought not be treated as objects, nor because, as in The Great Gatsby, they are too symbolically valuable to be shared, but because they are... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/enjoying-nothing-desiring-nothing-but-this-power.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/enjoying-nothing-desiring-nothing-but-this-power.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:27 -0800 Mara: She's America on foot, winged and sexed Suddenly I feel her coming. I turn my head. Yes, there she is coming full on, the sails spread, the eyes glowing. For the first time I see now what a carriage she has. She comes forward like a bird,... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/mara-shes-america-on-foot-winged-and-sexed.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/mara-shes-america-on-foot-winged-and-sexed.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:26 -0800 A night scene by El Greco Ultimately, Nick's effort to "make History" completely symbolic involves anesthetizing himself to some of the "Jazz Baby's" disturbingly modern agitation. Resembling Miller's Mara, Fitzgerald's Daisy is too much an event rather than a thing, a voice rather than a face,... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-night-scene-by-el-greco.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-night-scene-by-el-greco.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:25 -0800 Cleanth Brooks: Modern Poetry and the Tradition In forming Daisy, who as an object of desire is the antithesis of the "natural woman," Fitzgerald sets himself the task of recovering a simulacrum of "the primary, the eternal, the maternal, the plant-like," from a Waste Land "that for... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cleanth-brooks-modern-poetry-and-the-tradition.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/cleanth-brooks-modern-poetry-and-the-tradition.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:24 -0800 Roseland: No Improper Dancing Allowed In contrast to Fitzgerald, whose aesthetics demand that he rescue an image of symbolic fulfillment--the face--from the transitory promise of Daisy's voice, Miller, in pursuit of the American dream of unfettered freedom, is directly fascinated by the generative power of... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/roseland-no-improper-dancing-allowed.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/roseland-no-improper-dancing-allowed.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:23 -0800 Tack your womb up on my wall Where Fitzgerald must perform an act of "rehabilitation" to convert Daisy into something "significant, elemental, and profound," Miller need only appropriate as his own the vitality with which he imbues the monster he has made of Mara. Mara's ability to... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/tack-your-womb-up-on-my-wall.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/tack-your-womb-up-on-my-wall.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:22 -0800 Drowned in a deep mesh of words In a double sense the novel may be said to be an ideological genre. In the first instance, the "realities" of Tropic of Capricorn and The Great Gatsby are constructed of parts of a portion of the "social heteroglossia" within... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/drowned-in-a-deep-mesh-of-words.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/drowned-in-a-deep-mesh-of-words.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:21 -0800 Desire in the Waste Land - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/desire-in-the-waste-land-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/desire-in-the-waste-land-notes.html 7. Desire in the Waste Land Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:20 -0800 Munich Crisis of September 1938 Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. I like to dwell on this period when things were taking shape because the order, if it were understood, must have been dazzling. "We must get... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/munich-crisis-of-september-1938.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/munich-crisis-of-september-1938.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:19 -0800 Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Henry Miller lived and wrote in America for nearly forty-one years after his repatriation. But whatever the similarities between his work before and after Tropic of Capricorn, and there are many, Miller's "auto-novels" and essays never again displayed the preoccupation... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/big-sur-and-the-oranges-of-hieronymus-bosch.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/big-sur-and-the-oranges-of-hieronymus-bosch.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:18 -0800 The Rosy Crucifixion When, back in America, Miller next took up the story of June, it was published as Sexus (1949), Plexus (1953), and Nexus (1960) under the umbrella title of The Rosy Crucifixion. Although in a rough fashion The Rosy Crucifixion might... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-rosy-crucifixion.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-rosy-crucifixion.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:17 -0800 Henry Miller, Michael Fraenkel: Hamlet Letters An examination of Miller's post-Munich letters to Fraenkel and Nin discloses two Tropic of Capricorns, or rather Miller's understanding of the two very different discourses to which Tropic of Capricorn might be made to speak: the "novelistic" discourse that inspired... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-michael-fraenkel-hamlet-letters.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-michael-fraenkel-hamlet-letters.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:16 -0800 Poor Richard's Almanac, Emerson's Essays, Walden The mixed-mode writing that characterizes Miller's American novels and essays--more or less linear narrative punctuated by didactic meditations upon the proper "path" of Man in the modern age--suggests a continuation of the last Hamlet letter to Michael Fraenkel, rather than... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/poor-richards-almanac-emersons-essays-walden.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/poor-richards-almanac-emersons-essays-walden.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:15 -0800 Henry Miller: Letters to Anais Nin Miller's letter to Nin elaborates the mid-life crisis theme by means of a tripartite division of his life: adapting the self to the world, trying to seduce the world into adapting to the self, and adapting the self to the... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-letters-to-anais-nin.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/henry-miller-letters-to-anais-nin.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:14 -0800 Walt Whitman: Song of Myself Miller's post-Munich search for a clean exit from the detour of writing is constrained by the very novel, Tropic of Capricorn, from which he hoped to exit. With Whitman, Miller might regret once having "dared to open my mouth to... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/walt-whitman-song-of-myself.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/walt-whitman-song-of-myself.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:13 -0800 Converting words into silence: acts rather than action Trapped by his own thoroughly novelistic rhetoric, Miller could imagine only two solutions, two "clean exits" through which writing's "welter of crisscrossed tracks" might "give way to being."[54] The first and ultimately unsatisfactory solution, "silence," he explored in the October... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/converting-words-into-silence-acts-rather-than-action.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/converting-words-into-silence-acts-rather-than-action.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:12 -0800 The word is light and the truth becomes flesh http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-word-is-light-and-the-truth-becomes-flesh.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-word-is-light-and-the-truth-becomes-flesh.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:11 -0800 History of a Voice or Autobiography of Self-liberation With this formulation of the relation between writing and Being, Miller makes plausible a rereading of Tropic of Capricorn: no longer a history of the emerging "voice" of Tropic of Cancer, it reads as an autobiographical account of the self-liberation... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/history-of-a-voice-or-autobiography-of-self-liberation.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/history-of-a-voice-or-autobiography-of-self-liberation.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:10 -0800 Balancing at the edge of the abyss Tropic of Capricorn, read as a history of Miller's writing, fleshes out Tropic of Cancer's equation of writing with the diminution of Being. It represents the social, economic, and cultural forces that "historically" produced Miller's "voice" by reducing his spirit... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/balancing-at-the-edge-of-the-abyss.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/balancing-at-the-edge-of-the-abyss.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:09 -0800 The World of Sex Under Miller's revisionary interpretation, "zero hour" becomes the moment when the empty subject of Tropic of Capricorn is prepared to liberate himself from the discourse of the novel and write The Rosy Crucifixion. Miller's "clean exit," his transvaluation of the... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-world-of-sex.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-world-of-sex.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:08 -0800 A clean exit, such as the Devil himself might make The passages cited thus far from Tropic of Capricorn permit Miller's transvaluation of the metaphoric complex of writing/being because the rhetorical affect of the tale Miller tells in those passages remains unchanged under either the discourse of the novel or... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-clean-exit-such-as-the-devil-himself-might-make.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/a-clean-exit-such-as-the-devil-himself-might-make.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:07 -0800 The Last Book - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-last-book-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-last-book-notes.html 8. The Last Book Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:06 -0800 In myth there is no life for us When the literary history of the twentieth century is ultimately written, it is likely that the distinctive spirit of the literature of our day, both in theory and in practice, will be found to depend upon two factors: the emphasis... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/in-myth-there-is-no-life-for-us.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/in-myth-there-is-no-life-for-us.html 9. Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:05 -0800 Outside Modernism's narrow genealogy What Feidelson called "the distinctive spirit of the literature of our day," what I have called "New Critical modernism," was never the aesthetic program of any but a minority of writers and critics. Nevertheless, it has so dominated this century's... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/outside-modernisms-narrow-genealogy.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/outside-modernisms-narrow-genealogy.html 9. Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:04 -0800 Judgment is a matter of literary criticism, not literary history This conviction has animated my local study in the history of the modern novel and its central central contention that Miller's "undisciplined" expatriate narratives, Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), are not simply marginal... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/judgment-is-a-matter-of-literary-criticism-not-literary-history.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/judgment-is-a-matter-of-literary-criticism-not-literary-history.html 9. Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:03 -0800 The Novel is a shared rhetoric It is not The Novel's "relation to the society that produces and consumes it" that literary history is called upon to explain; each novel and every critical genealogy offers a rival vision of that relation. Nor is it the task... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-novel-is-a-shared-rhetoric.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-novel-is-a-shared-rhetoric.html 9. Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:02 -0800 The Problem of the Text: our moment in the discourse of the novel The problem of the Text is of our moment in the discourse of the novel. It is now not possible to wish it away by renewed invocations of the "facts" of history and the author's biography. For the text is... http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-problem-of-the-text-our-moment-in-the-discourse-of-the-novel.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/the-problem-of-the-text-our-moment-in-the-discourse-of-the-novel.html 9. Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:01 -0800 Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth - Notes http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/conclusion-only-the-myth-lives-in-myth-notes.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/conclusion-only-the-myth-lives-in-myth-notes.html 9. Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800 Biblography http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/biblography.html http://henry-miller.com/narrative-literature/biblography.html IV. Bibliography Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:59:59 -0800