Aldous Huxley / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Huxley, Aldous.

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 233 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [2003]

Summary:

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

Prophetic and unsparing, Huxley's Brave New World continues to warn us against the dangers of scientific progress.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Marking and remembering : Aldous Huxley / Milton Birnbaum

Brave new world and the flight from God / John Attarian

Color and light: Huxley's pathway to spiritual reality / Sally A. Paulsell

Aldous Huxley's modern myth : Leda and the poetry of ideas / Jerome Meckier

Aldous Huxley, satiric sonneteer : the defeat of youth / Jerome Meckier

Aldous Huxley in Russia / Nina Diakonova

Golding and Huxley : the fables of demonic possession / James R. Baker

Aldous Huxley and the nuclear age : ape and essence in context / Sanford E. Marovitz

Westward utopia : Robert V. Hine, Aldous Huxley, and the future of California history / Kerwin Lee Klein

The best of companions : J.W.N. Sullivan, Aldous Huxley, and the new physics / David Bradshaw

Aldous Huxley's philosophy / Ronald Hope

Huxley's "deep jam" and the adaptation of Alice in wonderland / David Leon Higdon and Phill Lehrman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index.

ISBN:

0791070409

OCLC:

50090287