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Article: "Choking on my own saliva": Henry Miller's bourgeois family Christmas in 'Nexus.'(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
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- June 22, 1997
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Due to his hyperfragmented narrative style and abiding interest in sexual candor, Henry Miller remains one of American literature's most enduring literary gangsters, a figure chided both for supposedly propounding a "theology of the cunt" (Gilbert and Gubar 116) and for "bad writing and silly thinking" (Widmer viii). Ever the "bad boy," Miller, who once declared that "the most boring group in all communities were the university professors," would probably relish such critical lashings ("Preface," The Air-Conditioned Nightmare 19). Indeed, he generally maintained that he desired to show the scoundrel in himself and that conventional literary form meant nothing to him. ...