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The Secret Violence of Henry Miller (Hardcover)
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The Secret Violence of Henry Miller (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Miller as a writer whose work does something more profound and
violent to literary conventions than produce novel effects: it
announces the possibility of difference and instability within
language itself. Henry Miller is a cult figure in the world of
fiction, in part due to having been banned for obscenity for nearly
thirty years. Alongside the liberating effect of his explicit
treatment of sexuality, however, Miller developed a provocative
form of writing that encourages the reader to question language as
a stable communicative tool and to consider the act of writing as
an ongoing mode of creation, always in motion, perpetually
establishing itself and creating meaning through that very motion.
Katy Masuga provides a new reading of Miller that is alert to the
aggressively and self-consciously writerly form of his work.
Critiquing the categorization of Miller into specific literary
genres through an examination of the small body of critical texts
on his oeuvre, Masuga draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of a
minor literature, Blanchot's "infinite curve," and Bataille's
theory of puerile language, while also considering Miller in
relation to other writers, including Proust, Rilke, and William
Carlos Williams. She shows how Miller defies conventional modes of
writing, subverting language from within. Katy Masuga is Adjunct
Professor of British and American literature, cinema, and the arts
in the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Paris III:
Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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