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Henry Miller: The Modern Rabelais (Studies in Comparative Literature)
by John Parkin
Binding: Hardcover, 292 pages
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
List Price: USD $109.95
Weight: 145
Dimension: H: 1.1 x L: 9.1 x W: 6.4 inches
ISBN 10: 0889466289
ISBN 13: 9780889466289
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This text reassesses the literary relationship linking Henry Miller and Francois Rabelais in terms of readings, imitations, and analogies. It uses a Bakhtinian approach to explore how Miller, as a 20th century anarchist and rebel, could realize his kinship with Rabelais, a 16th century humanist and Christian. The various avenues explored include lexical richness, conviviality, laughter, the grotesque, scenes of carnival, and the notions of freedom and self transcendence. Despite the negative side of Miller's work, thought, and artistic vision, of which obscenity, nihilism, and despair form clear elements, Miller's personality exudes a fundamentally positive spirit based on friendship, trust, and mutual respect, all of which can be seen as elements in the Rabelaisian philosophy of Pantagruelisme.

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