Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:16:22 -0500 From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU> Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy >Why is Henry Miller so sparsely taught? Is his message still so >subversive that it remains an academic taboo? It seems that everyone has a >ready-made opinion of him ... at least until they read him. > > > --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- I did a seminar once called "The Writer as Himself." I did Miller, Mailer, Thompson (Hunter), Whitman, Lawrence, Ginsberg (each of whom has a character by his name in his "fictive" work). the complications offered by lyric poetry were slight. WW came out as super existentially hip, and Miller (we did _all_ the tropics) came off as boring after Cancer. My reactions to the above are that Miller is a cool drink of water, but then he keeps doing the same damn thing. The cure for Miller enthusiasm is to read more of him. g --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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