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A LDOUS H UXLEY A NNUAL edited by Professor Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky), Professor Bernfried Nugel (Universität Münster) LIT
ALDOUS HUXLEYANNUAL
edited by
Professor Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky),Professor Bernfried Nugel (Universität Münster)
LIT
ALDOUS HUXLEYANNUAL
edited by
Professor Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky),Professor Bernfried Nugel (Universität Münster)
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EDITORIALAldous Huxley Annual is the new official organ of the Aldous Huxley Society and the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies.It publishes larger essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. It aspires to be the sort ofperiodical that Huxley would have wanted to read and to which he might have contributed.
EDITORIALAldous Huxley Annual is the new official organ of the Aldous Huxley Society and the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies.It publishes larger essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. It aspires to be the sort ofperiodical that Huxley would have wanted to read and to which he might have contributed.
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.) NEU
Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 14 (2014)Volume 14 of Aldous Huxley Annual begins with the presentation ofHux–ley’s 1961 diary covering his trip to Europe. It continues with hisrole in the editing of a book by his wife Laura and the story of the HuxleyTapes, a collection of recorded lectures and readings from his late career.Further critical articles on particular aspects of Huxley’s work follow, in-cluding a second selection of papers from the Oxford Symposium in 2013.The volume closes with the third Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Essayby Julian Piras (Belgium).vol. 14, 2015, 296 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN-CH 978-3-643-90698-4
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.) NEU
Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 14 (2014)Volume 14 of Aldous Huxley Annual begins with the presentation ofHux–ley’s 1961 diary covering his trip to Europe. It continues with hisrole in the editing of a book by his wife Laura and the story of the HuxleyTapes, a collection of recorded lectures and readings from his late career.Further critical articles on particular aspects of Huxley’s work follow, in-cluding a second selection of papers from the Oxford Symposium in 2013.The volume closes with the third Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Essayby Julian Piras (Belgium).vol. 14, 2015, 296 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN-CH 978-3-643-90698-4
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 12/13 (2012/2013)Volume 12/13 of Aldous Huxley Annual begins with a discussion of a lec-ture Huxley gave in Italian, an appraisal of his never-completed projectof a novel on Catherine of Siena, and his recently re-discovered drawingsfor “Leda.” Further critical articles on particular aspects of Huxley’s workfollow, together with the second Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial PrizeEssay by Hisashi Ozawa of King’s College London. A painting by CarolynMary Kleefeld ushers in the second part of the issue, which contains a firstselection of papers from the Oxford Symposium held in 2013.vol. 12/13, 2014, 368 pp., 39,90 €, pb.,ISBN-CH 978-3-643-90587-1
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 12/13 (2012/2013)Volume 12/13 of Aldous Huxley Annual begins with a discussion of a lec-ture Huxley gave in Italian, an appraisal of his never-completed projectof a novel on Catherine of Siena, and his recently re-discovered drawingsfor “Leda.” Further critical articles on particular aspects of Huxley’s workfollow, together with the second Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial PrizeEssay by Hisashi Ozawa of King’s College London. A painting by CarolynMary Kleefeld ushers in the second part of the issue, which contains a firstselection of papers from the Oxford Symposium held in 2013.vol. 12/13, 2014, 368 pp., 39,90 €, pb.,ISBN-CH 978-3-643-90587-1
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 10 / 11 (2010 / 2011)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishes es-says on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.Aldous Huxley Annual celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special dou-ble number. Chief contributor on this momentous occasion is AldousHuxley himself. Volume 10/11 contains a treasure trove of new Huxleyitems-letters, poems, stories, talks, proposals, introductions, playlets-allarranged in chronological order. Contributions date from 1916 and runthrough 1963, the year of Huxley’s death. In short, a special anniversarynumber that is truly special. Moreover, Huxley can for the first time be pre-sented as an accomplished painter: the Editors are proud to have procuredreproductions of five Huxley paintings owned by his grandchildren Teresaand Mark Trevenen Huxley. The concluding part of this issue consists ofseveral articles on particular aspects of Huxley’s work.vol. 10/11, 2012, 360 pp., 39,90 €, pb.,ISBN-CH 978-3-643-90284-9
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 10 / 11 (2010 / 2011)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishes es-says on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.Aldous Huxley Annual celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special dou-ble number. Chief contributor on this momentous occasion is AldousHuxley himself. Volume 10/11 contains a treasure trove of new Huxleyitems-letters, poems, stories, talks, proposals, introductions, playlets-allarranged in chronological order. Contributions date from 1916 and runthrough 1963, the year of Huxley’s death. In short, a special anniversarynumber that is truly special. Moreover, Huxley can for the first time be pre-sented as an accomplished painter: the Editors are proud to have procuredreproductions of five Huxley paintings owned by his grandchildren Teresaand Mark Trevenen Huxley. The concluding part of this issue consists ofseveral articles on particular aspects of Huxley’s work.vol. 10/11, 2012, 360 pp., 39,90 €, pb.,ISBN-CH 978-3-643-90284-9
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 9 (2009). Guest Editor: James SextonAldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.Volume 9 of Aldous Huxley Annual is the first to have a Guest Editor:Professor James Sexton of Camosun College and the University of Victoriain British Columbia. He opens this issue with “A new Huxley miscellany,”which is followed by a selection of lectures from the Fourth InternationalAldous Huxley Symposium held in Los Angeles in July/August 2008. Theissue closes with the first Peter Edgerly Firchow memorial Prize Essay byBrian Smith of Suffolk University.vol. 9, 2011, 240 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN978-3-643-10846-3
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 9 (2009). Guest Editor: James SextonAldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.Volume 9 of Aldous Huxley Annual is the first to have a Guest Editor:Professor James Sexton of Camosun College and the University of Victoriain British Columbia. He opens this issue with “A new Huxley miscellany,”which is followed by a selection of lectures from the Fourth InternationalAldous Huxley Symposium held in Los Angeles in July/August 2008. Theissue closes with the first Peter Edgerly Firchow memorial Prize Essay byBrian Smith of Suffolk University.vol. 9, 2011, 240 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN978-3-643-10846-3
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 8 (2008)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.This issue opens with four unknown or little-known short stories by AldousHuxley: „The Nun’s Tragedy“ (ca. 1921), „Over the Telephone“ (1922),„Nine A.M.“ (1924), and „Consider the Lilies“ (1954). These stories arefollowed by a selection of lectures from the Fourth International AldousHuxley Symposium held in Los Angeles in July 2008, together with anarticle on Brave New World as a parody and satire of Wells, Ford, Freudand Behaviourism in advanced foreign language teaching. The issue clo-ses with another lecture from the Los Angeles Symposium on Huxley asenvironmental prophet.N.B.: The submission deadline for volume 9 of Aldous Huxley Annual is 31July 2010. For further details see inside front cover.vol. 8, 2009, 248 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN978-3-643-10450-2
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 8 (2008)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.This issue opens with four unknown or little-known short stories by AldousHuxley: „The Nun’s Tragedy“ (ca. 1921), „Over the Telephone“ (1922),„Nine A.M.“ (1924), and „Consider the Lilies“ (1954). These stories arefollowed by a selection of lectures from the Fourth International AldousHuxley Symposium held in Los Angeles in July 2008, together with anarticle on Brave New World as a parody and satire of Wells, Ford, Freudand Behaviourism in advanced foreign language teaching. The issue clo-ses with another lecture from the Los Angeles Symposium on Huxley asenvironmental prophet.N.B.: The submission deadline for volume 9 of Aldous Huxley Annual is 31July 2010. For further details see inside front cover.vol. 8, 2009, 248 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN978-3-643-10450-2
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 7 (2007)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.This issue is dedicated to Prof Peter Edgerly Firchow (�18 October 2008)in appreciation of his merits as an outstanding Huxley scholar and as aFounding Member and Curator of the Aldous Huxley Society. It openswith Prof Firchow’s keynote lecture at the Fourth International AldousHuxley Symposium in Los Angeles in July 2008 and then presents a richanthology of Huxley’s uncollected prose from 1919 to 1963, edited byJames Sexton. Two more lectures from the Los Angeles Symposium closethis issue, one on death in Lawrence’s and Huxley’s fiction, and the otheron Erwin Schrödinger’s and Huxley’s views on the final end of human life.N.B.: The submission deadline for volume 8 of Aldous Huxley Annual is 31May 2009. For further details see inside front cover.vol. 7, 2009, 256 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN978-3-8258-1939-2
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 7 (2007)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>). It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.This issue is dedicated to Prof Peter Edgerly Firchow (�18 October 2008)in appreciation of his merits as an outstanding Huxley scholar and as aFounding Member and Curator of the Aldous Huxley Society. It openswith Prof Firchow’s keynote lecture at the Fourth International AldousHuxley Symposium in Los Angeles in July 2008 and then presents a richanthology of Huxley’s uncollected prose from 1919 to 1963, edited byJames Sexton. Two more lectures from the Los Angeles Symposium closethis issue, one on death in Lawrence’s and Huxley’s fiction, and the otheron Erwin Schrödinger’s and Huxley’s views on the final end of human life.N.B.: The submission deadline for volume 8 of Aldous Huxley Annual is 31May 2009. For further details see inside front cover.vol. 7, 2009, 256 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN978-3-8258-1939-2
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 6 (2006)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley). It publishes essayson the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. It aspiresto be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to read and towhich he might have contributed.This issue continues the previous volume’s collection of Aldous Huxley’searly essays in art criticism, for the most part published anonymously.It focuses on Huxley’s critical approach to architecture, applied arts andsculpture (Part II). Other contributions deal with Lady Chatterley’s Lover,with myth, history and utopianism as well as with Huxley’s literary re-mains.N.B.: The submission deadline for volume 7 of Aldous Huxley Annual is 31October 2008. For further details see inside front cover.2 ALDOUS HUXLEY ANNUAL 23 IAN ROSSvol. 6, 2008, 224 pp., 34,90 €, br., ISBN978-3-8258-1436-6
Bernfried Nugel; Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 6 (2006)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage at www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley). It publishes essayson the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. It aspiresto be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to read and towhich he might have contributed.This issue continues the previous volume’s collection of Aldous Huxley’searly essays in art criticism, for the most part published anonymously.It focuses on Huxley’s critical approach to architecture, applied arts andsculpture (Part II). Other contributions deal with Lady Chatterley’s Lover,with myth, history and utopianism as well as with Huxley’s literary re-mains.N.B.: The submission deadline for volume 7 of Aldous Huxley Annual is 31October 2008. For further details see inside front cover.2 ALDOUS HUXLEY ANNUAL 23 IAN ROSSvol. 6, 2008, 224 pp., 34,90 €, br., ISBN978-3-8258-1436-6
Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 5 (2005)This and the next Annual feature a collection of Aldous Huxley’s earlyessays in art criticism, for the most part published anonymously. The pre-sent issue focuses on Huxley’s critical approach to painting, particularly toModernist works (Part I); AHA 6 will concentrate on Huxley’s appraisal ofarchitecture, applied arts and sculpture in the 1920s (Part II).vol. 5, 2006, 232 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-9292-1
Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier (Eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 5 (2005)This and the next Annual feature a collection of Aldous Huxley’s earlyessays in art criticism, for the most part published anonymously. The pre-sent issue focuses on Huxley’s critical approach to painting, particularly toModernist works (Part I); AHA 6 will concentrate on Huxley’s appraisal ofarchitecture, applied arts and sculpture in the 1920s (Part II).vol. 5, 2006, 232 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-9292-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 4 (2004)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage on the Internet via <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>).It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley andhis circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would havewanted to read and to which he might have contributed. This issue featuresAldous Huxley’s and Beth Wendel’s drama-tization of The Genius and theGoddess never before published. It also includes several rather unknowntravel essays by Aldous Hux-ley as well as Peter E. Firchow’s openinglecture at the Third International Aldous Huxley Symposium held in Rigain July 2004.vol. 4, 2005, 240 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-8272-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 4 (2004)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage on the Internet via <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>).It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley andhis circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would havewanted to read and to which he might have contributed. This issue featuresAldous Huxley’s and Beth Wendel’s drama-tization of The Genius and theGoddess never before published. It also includes several rather unknowntravel essays by Aldous Hux-ley as well as Peter E. Firchow’s openinglecture at the Third International Aldous Huxley Symposium held in Rigain July 2004.vol. 4, 2005, 240 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-8272-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 3 (2003)Background to Brave New World: Five Essays by HuxleyBrave New World: A Musical Comedy by Aldous HuxleyF. H. Cushing: A Source for Huxley’s Brave Old WorldOnomastic Satire: Names and Naming in Brave New WorldCrome Yellow RevisitedAldous Huxley and Anti-SemitismAldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany. It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.vol. 3, 2003, 248 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-7137-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 3 (2003)Background to Brave New World: Five Essays by HuxleyBrave New World: A Musical Comedy by Aldous HuxleyF. H. Cushing: A Source for Huxley’s Brave Old WorldOnomastic Satire: Names and Naming in Brave New WorldCrome Yellow RevisitedAldous Huxley and Anti-SemitismAldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany. It publishesessays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Itaspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to readand to which he might have contributed.vol. 3, 2003, 248 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-7137-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 2 (2002)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage on the Internet via <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>).It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley andhis circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would havewanted to read and to which he might have contributed.Volume 3 will feature Huxley’s typescript for Brave New World: A Musi-cal ComedyN.B.: The submission deadline for volume 3 of Aldous Huxley Annual is15 April 2003. For further details see inside front cover.vol. 2, 2003, 256 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-6280-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 2 (2002)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage on the Internet via <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>).It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley andhis circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would havewanted to read and to which he might have contributed.Volume 3 will feature Huxley’s typescript for Brave New World: A Musi-cal ComedyN.B.: The submission deadline for volume 3 of Aldous Huxley Annual is15 April 2003. For further details see inside front cover.vol. 2, 2003, 256 pp., 34,90 €, pb., ISBN3-8258-6280-1
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 1 (2001)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage on the Internet via <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>).It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley andhis circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would havewanted to read and to which he might have contributed.vol. 1, 2001, 248 pp., 34,90 €, br., ISBN3-8258-4370-x
Jerome Meckier; Bernfried Nugel (eds.)Aldous Huxley AnnualVolume 1 (2001)Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Societyat the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Münster, Germany (see AHShomepage on the Internet via <www. anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley>).It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley andhis circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would havewanted to read and to which he might have contributed.vol. 1, 2001, 248 pp., 34,90 €, br., ISBN3-8258-4370-x
Bernfried Nugel; Uwe Rasch; Gerhard Wagner (Eds.)Aldous Huxley, Man of Letters: Thinker, Critic and Ar-tistProceedings of the Third International Aldous Huxley Sym-posium Riga 2004The lectures, presentations and workshops collected here reflectAldous Huxley’s many-sidedness as a leading exponent of twentieth-century literature seen from widely different perspectives, amongwhich Eastern European approaches from Latvia, Russia, Poland,Romania and Montenegro represent a novel feature at an interna-tional Huxley conference. Another innovation are four workshopsdevoted to Huxley’s The Art of Seeing and The Perennial Philoso-phy. Last but not least presentations from a Panel for Young HuxleyScholars testify to Huxley’s continuing appeal for the younger gene-ration.2008, 320 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN-CH 978-3-8258-9034-6
Jerome MeckierAldous Huxley, from Poet to MysticHuxley began as a poet. He perfected the voice of the modern satiri-cal poet of ideas who used art against itself to produce a parodic poe-try of breakdowns, collapses, stalemates, and dead ends best suitedto the apparent pointlessness of the post-war era. His cleverest, mostirreverent poems are contrapuntal; they in effect silence venerablepoets and cancel traditional formats. Huxley’s poetic personas eit-her fail to preserve conventional forms or purposely sabotage them.By 1920, Huxley became the parodic equivalent of the formativeintelligences (i.e., Dante, Goethe, Lucretius) who once synthesizedtheir respective eras positively. Meckier explicates most of Huxley’spoems, including ”Leda” his masterpiece, an ironical modern myth.He traces Huxley’s development in terms of the poets he inserted infive of his eleven novels, along with their poems. These poets mostlyfail as poets, their different stances falling apart one after another.But Huxley began to detect a spiritual significance underlying thecreative urge. This allowed him to rehabilitate many of the Romanticand Victorian poets he formerly ridiculed as frauds and liars. Even-tually, he celebrated mystical contemplation as silent poetry, positinga utopia in which everyone is a poet to the limits of his or her poten-tiality. Huxley became the perennial philosopher, a neo-Brahmin: thesage-like figure he initially personified parodically. His paradigmaticcareer took him from a Pyrrhonic silencing of outmoded poems andpoets to the advocacy of a poetry of silence.2011, 392 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN-CH978-3-643-90101-9
Bernfried Nugel; Uwe Rasch; Gerhard Wagner (Eds.)Aldous Huxley, Man of Letters: Thinker, Critic and Ar-tistProceedings of the Third International Aldous Huxley Sym-posium Riga 2004The lectures, presentations and workshops collected here reflectAldous Huxley’s many-sidedness as a leading exponent of twentieth-century literature seen from widely different perspectives, amongwhich Eastern European approaches from Latvia, Russia, Poland,Romania and Montenegro represent a novel feature at an interna-tional Huxley conference. Another innovation are four workshopsdevoted to Huxley’s The Art of Seeing and The Perennial Philoso-phy. Last but not least presentations from a Panel for Young HuxleyScholars testify to Huxley’s continuing appeal for the younger gene-ration.2008, 320 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN-CH 978-3-8258-9034-6
Jerome MeckierAldous Huxley, from Poet to MysticHuxley began as a poet. He perfected the voice of the modern satiri-cal poet of ideas who used art against itself to produce a parodic poe-try of breakdowns, collapses, stalemates, and dead ends best suitedto the apparent pointlessness of the post-war era. His cleverest, mostirreverent poems are contrapuntal; they in effect silence venerablepoets and cancel traditional formats. Huxley’s poetic personas eit-her fail to preserve conventional forms or purposely sabotage them.By 1920, Huxley became the parodic equivalent of the formativeintelligences (i.e., Dante, Goethe, Lucretius) who once synthesizedtheir respective eras positively. Meckier explicates most of Huxley’spoems, including ”Leda” his masterpiece, an ironical modern myth.He traces Huxley’s development in terms of the poets he inserted infive of his eleven novels, along with their poems. These poets mostlyfail as poets, their different stances falling apart one after another.But Huxley began to detect a spiritual significance underlying thecreative urge. This allowed him to rehabilitate many of the Romanticand Victorian poets he formerly ridiculed as frauds and liars. Even-tually, he celebrated mystical contemplation as silent poetry, positinga utopia in which everyone is a poet to the limits of his or her poten-tiality. Huxley became the perennial philosopher, a neo-Brahmin: thesage-like figure he initially personified parodically. His paradigmaticcareer took him from a Pyrrhonic silencing of outmoded poems andpoets to the advocacy of a poetry of silence.2011, 392 pp., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN-CH978-3-643-90101-9
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LIT VERLAG Münster –Berlin – LondonD-48159 Münster Fresnostr. 2 Tel. +49 (0) 2 51 / 620 32 - 0Fax +49 (0) 2 51 / 922 6099 E-Mail: [email protected] Berlin c/o Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinSitz: Invalidenstr. 110 Tel. +49 (0) 30 / 280 408 80Fax +49 (0) 30 / 280 408 82 E-Mail: [email protected]: [email protected]
LIT VERLAG GmbH & Co. KG, Wien –ZürichA-1090 Wien Garnisongasse. 1/19 Tel. +43(0) 1 / 409 5661Fax +43 (0) 1/4 09 56 97 E-Mail [email protected] Zürich Klosbachstr. 107 CH-8032 Zürich Tel. +41 (0) 44-251 75 05Fax +41 (0) 44-251 75 06 E-Mail: [email protected]
Auslieferung:Deutschland: LIT Verlag, Fresnostr. 2, D-48159 MünsterTel.+49 (0) 2 51-620 32 22, Fax +49 (0) 2 51-922 60 99, E-Mail: [email protected]Österreich: Medienlogistik Pichler-ÖBZ, IZ-NÖ, Süd, Straße 1, Objekt 34, A-2355Wiener NeudorfTel. +43 (0) 22 36-63 53 52 90, Fax +43 (0) 22 36-63 53 52 43, E-Mail: [email protected]: B + M Buch- und Medienvertrieb, Hochstr. 357, CH-8200 SchaffhausenFax +41 (0) 52-643 54 35, E-Mail: [email protected] Kingdom: Global Book Marketing, 99B Wallis Rd, London, E9 5LNPhone/Fax +44 (0)20 85 33 58 00, E-Mail: [email protected] America: International Specialized Book Services, 920 NE 58th Ave. Suite 300,Portland, OR 97213, USAPhone +1 (800) 944 6190 / +1 (503) 287 3093, Fax +1 (503) 280 8832, E-Mail: [email protected]
