On Henry Miller (eBook)

Or, How to Be an Anarchist

John Burnside (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8922-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Millerand to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape ';the air-conditioned nightmare' of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's critical reputationif not his popular readershiphas been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in Sexual Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art. Even a Miller fan like the acclaimed Scottish writer John Burnside finds Miller's sex booksincluding The Rosy Crucifixion, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricornboring and embarrassing. But Burnside says that Miller's notorious image as a pornographer and woman hater has hidden his vital, true importancehis anarchist sensibility and the way it shows us how, by fleeing from conformity of all kinds, we may be able to save ourselves from the air-conditioned nightmare of the modern world.Miller wrote that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy, and in this short, engaging, and personal book, Burnside shows how Miller teaches us to become less adapted to the world, to resist a life sentence to the prison of social, intellectual, emotional, and material conditioning. Exploring the full range of Miller's work, and giving special attention to The Air-Conditioned Nightmare and The Colossus of Maroussi, Burnside shows how, with humor and wisdom, Miller illuminates the misunderstood tradition of anarchist thought. Along the way, Burnside reflects on Rimbaud's enormous influence on Miller, as well as on how Rimbaud and Miller have influenced his own writing.An unconventional and appealing account of an unjustly neglected writer, On Henry Miller restores to us a figure whose searing criticism of the modern world has never been more relevant.

Autor

John Burnside is a poet, novelist, and memoirist whose recent books include Still Life with Feeding Snake and Ashland & Vine. He has won many awards for his poetry, including the T. S. Eliot, Forward, Whitbread, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian, and he writes a regular nature column for the New Statesman. He is professor of English at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.3.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Writers on Writers
• Reihe/Serie: Writers on Writers
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: activism • Aggression • alan watts • Antithesis • Arthur Rimbaud • Banality (sculpture series) • Body Image • chutzpah • Civil disobedience • cowardice • Death in Venice • D. H. Lawrence • Don DeLillo • Environmentalist • environmental movement • Everyday life • Farce • flattery • For the Glory • gratification • Greenwashing • grove press • Hagakure • Head in the Clouds • Henri Laborit • His Family • humiliation • Humour • idealization • Ideology • Institution • internment • In This World • James P. Carse • Jeanette Winterson • jeremiad • jouissance • Jude the Obscure • Kate Millett • Lawrence Durrell • lawrence ferlinghetti • Lewis Carroll • Literature • Manliness (book) • Marianne Moore • Matty Groves • Miller's Word • misogyny • Mycenae • My Life and Loves • narrative • natural resource • near-death experience • newspaper • Nobel prize • obscenity • obstacle • overpopulation • Personal life • Philosopher • Philosophy • Poetry • Pornography • Prejudice • Prose • Racism • Rainer Maria Rilke • Rationality • Render unto Caesar • resentment • Robert Lowell • Robinson Jeffers • Romanticism • Round-robin letter • Sailboat • Scientist • Sea lane • self-medication • Sexism • sexual politics • Sincerity • Slavery • social conditioning • Social Status • spouse • Surrealism • Swedish Academy • Tailor • Tax • terence • Tetanus • The Colossus of Maroussi • The Other Hand • Thought • Trickster • Wealth • World War II • Writer • Writing • Yin and Yang
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8922-7 / 1400889227
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8922-8 / 9781400889228