Anais Nin

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 Read More...

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The Critical Response to Anais Nin
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 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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Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Series Foreword

Chronology

Introduction

Notes

General Assessments

Anais Nin

Anais Nin and the Discovery of Inner Space

Anais Nin and the Feminine Quest for Consciousness: The Quelling of the Devouring Mother and the Ascension of the Sophia

Anais Nin: a Critical Evaluation

The Music of the Womb: Anais Nin's "Feminine Writing"

Works Cited

Nin's Shorter Fiction

Refinements on a Journal

"Men . . . Have No Tenderness": Anais Nin's Winter of Artifice

Review of Under a Glass Bell

Review of Under a Glass Bell

The Textual Evolution of the First Section of "Houseboat"

Discourse and Intercourse, Design and Desire in the Erotica of Anais Nin

Nin's Novels Surrealist Soap Opera

Freudian Noah's Ark

Freudian Noah's Ark

Freudian Noah's Ark

Nin: the Topic of Paris

Sexuality and the Opposite Sex: Variations on a Theme by Théophile Gautier and Anais Nin

Lillian Beye's Labyrinth: A Freudian Exploration of Cities of the Interior

Nin's Diary

The Charmed Circle of Anais Nin

Free Women

"Excuse Me, It Was All a Dream": The Diary of Anais Nin, 1944-1947

The Diaries of Anais Nin

Anais Nin in the Diary: The Creation and Development of a Persona

Truth and Artistry in the Diary of Anais Nin

Dropping Another Veil: Anais Nin's Henry and June

A Story Never Told Before -- Reading the New, Unexpurgated Diaries of Anais Nin

Nin Herself

Introduction (julia Casterton)

Looking Again at Anais Nin

A Mirror of Her Own: Anais Nin's Autobiographical Performances

Bibliography

Index

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Ladders to Fire
by Anais Nin. 152 pgs.

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This Hunger
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American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. 2 ("Anais Nin (1903-1977)" begins on p. 107)
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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American Women Fiction Writers 1900-1969 Volume Two

Contents

The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins 1859-1930

Zora Neale Hurston 1851-1960

Shirley Jackson 1919-1965

Nella Larsen 1851-1964

Mary Mccarthy 1912-1989

Carson Mccullers 1917-1967

Margaret Mitchell 1900-1949

AnaÏs Nin 1903-1977

Flannery O'Connor 1925-1964

Dorothy Parker 1893-1967

Ann Petry 0. 1908

Index
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Women Memoirists, Vol. Two ("Anais Nin" begins on p. 56)
by Harold Bloom. 184 pgs.

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Women Memoirists

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Critical Extracts

Bibliography

Mary Mccarthy

Critical Extracts

Bibliography

Kate Millett

Critical Extracts

Bibliography

AnaÏs Nin

Critical Extracts

Bibliography

Hester Thrale Piozzi

Critical Extracts

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May Yarton

Critical Extracts

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Gertrude Stein

Critical Extracts

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Eudora Welty

Critical Extracts

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Jade Snow Wong

Critical Extracts

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Virginia Woolf

Critical Extracts

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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)
by Harry R. Garvin. 178 pgs.

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Some Implications of Milton's Androgynous Muse

The Conflict between Tradition and Modern Values in Tennyson's the Princess

The Perfumed Goddess

The Catholic Concept of the Feminine

Can There Be a Female Buddha in Theravada Buddhism?

Female Experience and Literary Technique Marriage or Career

"Bound" Characters in Porter, Welty, Mccullers

Politics of Suicide and Survival

Anais Nin and the Feminine Quest for Consciousness

Feminist Criticism Feminist Criticism and the Concept of the Poetic Persona

Nostalgia Is Not Enough: Why Elizabeth Hardwick Misreads Ibsen, Plath, and Woolf
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Anais Nin" begins on p. 356)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
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Noli Me Tangere: The Structure of Anais Nin's Under a Glass Bell, in Studies in Short Fiction
by Benjamin V. Franklin. 21 pgs.

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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)
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 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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Acknowledgements

Contents

Preface

Notes

Author's Foreword Towards the Evolution of a New Literary Form

Notes

Essay

Essay

Notes

Works Cited

Tradition and Its Limitations

Anaïs Nin

The Portales Notebooks

Note

Paris to New York, New Jersey, Brooklyn, South to Southwest, to New Mexico

Essay-In-Dialogue

The Managerial Technological Ritual Shakers and Makers of the World

Patterns. Or. the Gap. (the Great American Package)

Essay

Cultural Suicide and the Decline of Literacy in America

Notes

Life and Living in San Miguel: I

Interlude

Essay

The End of the Absolute in Language and Literature

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Creativity as the Struggle to Remain Alive

Essay-In-Dialogue

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Big Science and Big Publishing

The Crisis in Modern Fiction

Essay

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Velocities of Change

Essay-In-Dialogue

Interlude

Populism Tv-I

Essay-In-Dialogue

April 1984 or Other Worlds of Being

Hollywoodesque: Destroying the Picturesque

Interlude

New Story as Myth (preface to En Route to Auron Winter Ski Station, Volume II of the Trilogy: Every Very Person's Future Forward Journey of Return)

Statement of the Author. En Route to Auron Winter Ski Station

Salt from Sacraments: a Neo-Narrative Prose-Poetry "Fiction" After the Book of Genesis

Essay-In-Dialogue

Artifice and Art

Visions as Appearances of Things

Essay

Thinking Spatially

Art as Psychic Rebirth

Serving in the Uses of This World

Neo-Narrative Interlude

Interlude

Interview with the Author Arlene Zekowski on Her New Book: Histories and Dynasties

Sidelights

Neo-Narrative Interlude

Living Only in the Thing Itself

Essay-In-Dialogue

Arranging Flowers from the Garden

Essay

Art Versus Reality: Spirit Versus Matter

Interlude

Tide Pool Beach Walk

The Portales Notebooks

A Reply to George Steiner's: "The Retreat from the Word"

Notes

Essay-In-Dialogue

The New Cosmos?

The Jiggle Jangle Juggle of the World

Inevitability

Literature and Language for the Year 2000: Poetry-Prose Neo-Narrative Open Structure

Essay

Note

The Portales Notebooks

A Visit with Georgia O'Keeffe

Notes

Mapping the Neo-Narrative and the Grammarless Language:

Interlude

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Appendix

Index
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The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (Discussion of Anais Nin begins on p. 102)
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 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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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction the Prose Poem and the Ideology of Genre

Prologue

Part I: The Birth of the Modern Prose Poem

1: Gertrude Stein and the Expatriate Avant-Garde

2: Popular Modernism and the American Prose Poem

Part II: Contemporary Trajectories

3: The Prose Poem and the (short) Short Story

4: Deep Images and Things the Prose Poems of Robert Bly

5: Unreal Miniatures the Art of Charles Simic

Part III: The Prose Poem and the New Avant-Garde

6: Rewriting the Sentence Language Poetry and the New Prose Poem

Epilogue the Prose Poem Now

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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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")
by Albert E. Stone. 352 pgs.

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I: Individual Stories and Cultural Narratives: Autobiography in Modern America

2: History and a Final Self: W. E. B. Du Bois and Henry Adams

3: The Soul and the Self: Black Elk and Thomas Merton

4: The Childhood of the Artist: Louis Sullivan and Richard Wright

5: Cato's Mirror: the Face of Violence in The Autobiographies of Alexander Berkman And Conrad Aiken

6: Becoming a Woman in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anaïs Nin

7: Two Recreate One: the Act Of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography--Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw, Malcolm X

8: Factual Fictions: Experiments In Autobiography by Norman Mailer, Frank Conroy, Lillian Hellman

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