Henry Miller and How He Got That Way

Identifying six significant writers—Whitman, Dostoevsky, Rimbaud, Lewis Carroll, Proust and D. H. Lawrence—Katy Masuga examines their influence on Miller's work as well as Miller's retroactive impact on their writing. She explores four forms of intertextuality in relation to each 'ancestral' author: direct allusions, unconscious style, reverse influence and participation of the ancestral author as part of the story within the text. The study is informed by the theories of polyvocity from Ba...