Issue 11.2

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Special Issue: The World of Anais Nin: Critical and Cultural Perspectives

Published: January 1978


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 17 essays, totalling 224 pages

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This special issue focused on Anaïs Nin examines her life and writings in relation to the writers, artists, and intellectuals whom she knew. Although heavily focused on her diary, this collection also looks at Nin’s relationship with figures like Antonin Artaud, Otto Rank, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Anaïs Nin in the Diary: The Creation and Development of a Persona

Duane Schneider

"Hypocrite lecteur": Tropic of Cancer as Sexual Comedy

Donald Gutierrez

A Room in the House of Art: The Friendship of Anaïs Nin and Lawrence Durrell

Ian S. MacNiven

The Manuscripts of Anaïs Nin at Northwestern

Marie-Claire Van der Elst

Anaïs/Artaud - Alchemy

Bettina L. Knapp

The Making of Bells of Atlantis

Ian Hugo

Doubles/Don Juans: Anaïs Nin and Otto Rank

Philip K. Jason

The Textual Evolution of the First Section of "Houseboat"

Benjamin Franklin V

The View from Under a Glass Bell

Keith Cushman

Archetypal Constellations of Feminine Consciousness in Nin's First Diary

Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos

"The Barbaric Friendship with Robert": A Biographical Palimpsest

Ekbert Faas

Anaïs Nin and Gore Vidal: A Study in Literary Incompatibility

Bernard F. Dick

"...and the pursuit of happiness": The Scarlet Letter and A Spy in the House of Love

Anna Balakian

Traduire Anaïs Nin

Elizabeth Janvier

Anaïs Nin's Diary and the Japanese Literary Diary Tradition

Catherine Broderick

Anaïs Nin's Diary in Context

Lynn Z. Bloom and Orlee Holder

Anaïs Nin's "Quest for Order"

Paul Grimley Kuntz