Aldous Huxley
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Blooms's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781604138665
Subjects: Huxley, Aldous, -- 1894-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Aldous Huxley has been called the 20th century's answer to the Renaissance thinker. He gained fame for his utopian and dystopian fiction, including Brave New World, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, and Ape and Essence. With an introductory essay from Yale literature professor Harold Bloom, this volume contains a collection of the finest contemporary criticism on Huxley, plus a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an index for easy reference.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Aldous Huxley as a borrower / Robert Cecil Bald; title: Mysticism in two of Aldous Huxley's early novels / Clyde Enroth; title: The philosophical phases of Aldous Huxley / James H. Quina Jr; title: Aldous Huxley: satire and structure / Jerome Meckier; title: Structure and meaning in Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza / Pierre Vitoux; title: Quarles among the monkeys: Huxley's zoological novels / Jerome Meckier; title: Bringing order out of chaos: Huxley's Time must have a stop and Vedanta / Janet L. Goodrich; title: Choosing utopia: an existential reading of Aldous Huxley's Island / Alex MacDonald; title: Oedipus in dystopia: Freud and Lawrence in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world / Brad Buchanan; title: Confronting the abject: women and dead babies in modern English fiction / Sally Minogue and Andrew Palmer; title: Brave new world versus Island's utopian and dystopian views on sychopharmacology / Marrtjen N. Schermer; title: Designing a brave new world: eugenics, politics, and fiction / Joanne Woiak; title: "When the Indian was in vogue": D. H. lawrence, Aldous Huxley, and ethnological tourism in the Southwest / Carey Snyder.