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Henry Miller and How He Got That Way
Katy Masuga
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Description for Henry Miller and How He Got That Way
Hardback. Brings Henry Miller back to the critical attention that his work deserves as well as making an original contribution to literary discussion on intertextuality. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
Identifying six significant writers - Whitman, Dostoevsky, Rimbaud, Lewis Carroll, Proust and D. H. Lawrence - Katy Masuga explores their influence on Miller's work as well as Miller's retroactive impact on their writing. She explores four forms of intertextuality in relation to each 'ancestral' author: direct allusions; unconscious style; reverse influence; and participation of the ancestral author as part of the story within the text. The study is informed by the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Kristeva on polyvocity and of Blanchot, Wittgenstein and Deleuze on language games and the indefatigability of writing. By presenting Miller in intertextual context, he emerges as a noteworthy modernist writer whose contributions to literature include the struggle to find a distinctive voice alongside a distinguished lineage of literary figures. Key Features * Major contribution to rehabilitating an important and often overlooked twentieth-century writer * Places Miller's work in thought-provoking intertextual relationships among a diverse range of writers * Provides an incisive critical approach to Miller's writing
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748641185
SKU
V9780748641185
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About Katy Masuga
Katy Masuga earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2007, centring on Anglo, French and Germanic modernism. Masuga has also written numerous articles as well as The Secret Violence of Henry Miller (Camden House 2011). Her current research focuses on Beckett, Wittgenstein and language. Masuga has researched and taught literature, philosophy, film, art history, history and languages at universities in France, Germany, the US and UK. She is an Associated Researcher at Paris-Sorbonne University and Editorial Coordinator at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.
Reviews for Henry Miller and How He Got That Way
Books may be, as Miller said, "as much a part of life as trees, stars or dung," but he also said 90% of them "could be thrown on the junk heap." As for the 10% which contributed to the often overlooked intelligence of his seemingly pornographic, idiosyncratic prose, Katy Masuga's much-needed study discretely shows why, and how, with suggestive attention to the writer writing about writing itself.
Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities University of Washington Henry Miller, although he read widely, selectively and in some ways eccentrically, was a totally instinctive writer, whose novels as well as his other writings were based on observation and personal experience rather than ideas or influences. Katy Masuga's study of Miller is a brave endeavour to bind him to his reading, and she finds surprising and original sides to his work that have not been noticed before, giving him a sophistication buried underneath the surface of his work, that might have surprised even the author himself. Anybody looking for the depths in Henry Miller's novels that he sought in his reading will find it here.
John Calder, publisher and bookseller Books may be, as Miller said, "as much a part of life as trees, stars or dung," but he also said 90% of them "could be thrown on the junk heap." As for the 10% which contributed to the often overlooked intelligence of his seemingly pornographic, idiosyncratic prose, Katy Masuga's much-needed study discretely shows why, and how, with suggestive attention to the writer writing about writing itself. Henry Miller, although he read widely, selectively and in some ways eccentrically, was a totally instinctive writer, whose novels as well as his other writings were based on observation and personal experience rather than ideas or influences. Katy Masuga's study of Miller is a brave endeavour to bind him to his reading, and she finds surprising and original sides to his work that have not been noticed before, giving him a sophistication buried underneath the surface of his work, that might have surprised even the author himself. Anybody looking for the depths in Henry Miller's novels that he sought in his reading will find it here.
Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities University of Washington Henry Miller, although he read widely, selectively and in some ways eccentrically, was a totally instinctive writer, whose novels as well as his other writings were based on observation and personal experience rather than ideas or influences. Katy Masuga's study of Miller is a brave endeavour to bind him to his reading, and she finds surprising and original sides to his work that have not been noticed before, giving him a sophistication buried underneath the surface of his work, that might have surprised even the author himself. Anybody looking for the depths in Henry Miller's novels that he sought in his reading will find it here.
John Calder, publisher and bookseller Books may be, as Miller said, "as much a part of life as trees, stars or dung," but he also said 90% of them "could be thrown on the junk heap." As for the 10% which contributed to the often overlooked intelligence of his seemingly pornographic, idiosyncratic prose, Katy Masuga's much-needed study discretely shows why, and how, with suggestive attention to the writer writing about writing itself. Henry Miller, although he read widely, selectively and in some ways eccentrically, was a totally instinctive writer, whose novels as well as his other writings were based on observation and personal experience rather than ideas or influences. Katy Masuga's study of Miller is a brave endeavour to bind him to his reading, and she finds surprising and original sides to his work that have not been noticed before, giving him a sophistication buried underneath the surface of his work, that might have surprised even the author himself. Anybody looking for the depths in Henry Miller's novels that he sought in his reading will find it here.