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Nin, AnaÏs - ənīˈĭs nĭn, nēn, 1903–77, American writer, b. Paris. The daughter of the Spanish composer Joaquín Nin, she came to the United States as a child. She was a psychoanalytic patient of Otto Rank, and a deep concern with the subconscious is evidenced in her work. This is particularly true of her best-known works, her

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The Critical Response to Anais Nin » Read Now
by Philip K. Jason. 278 pgs.

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Best known for her diary, Anais Nin was also the author of several novels, short fiction, and a book on D.H. Lawrence. As a woman who made a career of her aesthetic femininity, her works helped shape the future of gender studies and feminist literary criticism. Her writings have challenged numerous...
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Best known for her diary, Anais Nin was also the author of several novels, short fiction, and a book on D.H. Lawrence. As a woman who made a career of her aesthetic femininity, her works helped shape the future of gender studies and feminist literary criticism. Her writings have challenged numerous critics, while her life has been equally fascinating. The selections in this book represent the critical response to her works, from her first efforts in the 1930s to the posthumous publication of unexpurgated diary volumes beginning in 1986, including the views of major biographers and contemporary critics.
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Ladders to Fire » Read Now
by Anais Nin. 152 pgs.

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...LADDERS TO FIRE Ladders to Fire By Anais Nin THE SWALLOW PRESS INC. CHICAGO Copyright 1959 by Anais Nin All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of...
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American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 ("Anais Nin (1903-1977)" begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 176 pgs.

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Part of an ongoing series covering the texts and lives of the most important women writers of English, this book contains introductory essays by Harold Bloom and provides biographical information, a wide selection of critical excerpts, and complete bibliographies of 11 authors.
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Women Memoirists, Vol. Two ("Anais Nin" begins on p. 56) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 184 pgs.

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Women, Literature, Criticism ("Anais Nin and the Feminine Quest for Consciousness: The Quelling of the Devouring Mother and the Ascension of the Sophia" begins on p. 119) » Read Now
by Harry R. Garvin. 178 pgs.

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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Anais Nin" begins on p. 356) » Read Now
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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...A LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM A LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM Modern American Literature Compiled and edited by DOROTHY NYREN Librarian, Concord Free Public...
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Noli Me Tangere: The Structure of Anais Nin's Under a Glass Bell, in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Benjamin V. Franklin. 21 pgs.

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...their works would be structured, Anais Nin, to the best of my knowledge, left...published the collection with the Anais Nin Press in 1957, she reproduced the...text...
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Against the Disappearance of Literature: Essays, Interludes, Dialogues, Invocations on the Creating Word ("The Portales Notebooks: Anais Nin" begins on p. 48) » Read Now
by Arlene Zekowski. 230 pgs.

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In her book, Zekowski chronicles the history of publishing as it affected the lives and careers of American authors in the period between 1954 and 1994. This period marks the rise of television, the Internet, and the sound bite, and the consequent decline in the attention span of the American...
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In her book, Zekowski chronicles the history of publishing as it affected the lives and careers of American authors in the period between 1954 and 1994. This period marks the rise of television, the Internet, and the sound bite, and the consequent decline in the attention span of the American public. More importantly, it also marks the rise of big, corporate publishing as companies began to merge and form multi-media conglomerates. How will serious writers find an audience when the terms "mass-market," "best-seller," and "movie rights" dominate the vocabularies of most publishers? Zekowski examines how changes in our culture and in the business world affect the kind of books available to us today, and what they could mean for the future of literature.
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The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (Discussion of Anais Nin begins on p. 102) » Read Now
by Michel Delville. 296 pgs.

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The American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.
Delville reassesses the...
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The American prose poem has a rich history marked by important contributions from major writers. Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.
Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of modern poetry and introduces writings by some whose work in the form has so far escaped mainstream critical attention (Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Patchen, Russell Edson). He describes the genre's European origins and the work of several early representatives of a modern tradition of the prose lyric (Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Franz Kafka, and James Joyce).
By applying a broad range of theory to the history of the prose poem, Delville adds evidence to its reputation as a norm-breaking form by writing within, against, and across existing genres and traditions. He shows that the history of the contemporary prose poem is, in many respects, the record of its efforts to question both the nature of the "poetic" or "lyric" mode and the aesthetic and ideological foundations of a variety of other genres and subgenres.
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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw (Chap. 6 "Becoming a Woman in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anais Nin") » Read Now
by Albert E. Stone. 352 pgs.

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...in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anais Nin 190 7 Two Recreate...Jovanovich, Inc., for The Diary of Anais Nin , Volume I, copyright 1966, by Anais Nin. Reprinted by...