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A Self-Made Surrealist: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Works of Henry Miller (European Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Caroline Blinder
Hardcover. Camden House 1999-12.
ISBN 9781571131331
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Publisher description
Since the publication of Tropic of Cancer in 1934, Henry Miller has been
the target of critics from all sides. A Self-Made Surrealist sets out to
provide a view of Miller different from both earlier vindications of him as
sexual liberator and prophet and more contemporary feminist critiques of him as
pornographer and male chauvinist. In this re-evaluation of Miller's role as a
radical writer, Blinder considers not only notions of obscenity and sexuality,
but also the emergence of psychoanalysis, surrealism, automatic writing, and
the aesthetics of fascism, as they illuminate Miller's more general
20th-century concerns with politics and mass psychology in relation to art.
Blinder also considers the effect on Miller of the theoretical works of Georges
Bataille and Andre Breton, among others, in order to define and explore the
social, philosophical, and political contexts of the period. By examining the
enormous impetus Miller got from being in the midst of French culture and its
debate, A Self-Made Surrealist shows that Miller was indeed a seminal writer of
the period rather than simply an isolated male chauvinist. An evaluation of a writer who was the talk of the literary world in the
early days of the sexual revolution.
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