Henry Miller and How He Got That Way

by Katy Masuga

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748641181
• ISBN13: 9780748641185
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher