Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own

ISBN-13: 9780367252663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 114 str.

Clara Oropeza

Opis

Traces Nin’s creative process inclusive of psyche, language, the body and aesthetics derived from Nin’s life experiences. This book maps Nin’s literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details of the quotidian, transmogrified into fiction.

Spis treści

Preface: Tracing the Faces of Life, Creativity and Literature Chapter 1: Anaïs Nin: Self Life Writing, Myth and Literature Chapter 2: Anaïs Nin’s Expurgated Diaries Volume 1 (1931-1934) and 2 (1934-1939): Modernism and Myth Chapter 3: Risks and Tricks in the Myth of the Diarist Chapter 4: (Un)veiling Incest: The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 4 and Incest: From a Journal of Love Chapter 5: The Literary Credo of a Diarist/Novelist as traced in Incest: From a Journal of Love and Winter of Artifice Chapter 6: Myth, Monsters and Art: The Labyrinths of Nin’s Seduction of the Minotaur Epilogue: Tending Self and Nature: Eco-minded Writing and Communitas

O autorze

Clara Oropeza is Professor of English Composition and Literature at Santa Barbara City College, California, USA. Her research brings comparative mythology to literary studies and cultural theory. She is the author of several essays, most recent The (Mal)Creation of Food the Monsanto Way: Returning a Mythic Sensitivity to Food Production. She received her BA and MA in English Literature from California State University, Los Angeles and her PhD in Comparative Mythology and Literature from Pacifica Graduate Institute.