Wayne E Arnold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1462313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne E Arnold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne E |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLD W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Kitakyushu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7538-5318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nippon rediscovered
Although sound cinema had already reshaped global film culture by the early 1930s, Japan had not yet exported a talking film abroad; instead, European audiences first heard dubbed Japanese voices on screen in Nippon (1932), a German-edited compilation of three silent Japanese films. Notably, after the film reached Paris, French press coverage did not mention that Nippon was a German production. Who brought it and why its German origins were effac…
Kornelia Boczkowska, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels
Kornelia Boczkowska’s Lost Highways, Embodied Travels aims to reposition how we think about the American road movie by focusing on experimental film and video rather than mainstream cinema. Scholars of the road movie genre have long emphasized iconic films, such as Easy Rider (1969) and Thelma & Louise (1991), with their now-familiar associations of freedom, rebellion, and countercultural identity. Boczkowska’s objective is to reconceptualize the…
Claudia Junghyun Kim, Base Towns
Kenneth Fearing’s Inter-War Social Capital Network
Biographers have portrayed Kenneth Fearing as a cynical, reclusive writer defined by political ambiguity and personal struggles. This article challenges that narrative, emphasizing a vibrant social network as the driving force behind his literary identity. Rather than a committed ideologue, Fearing was a well-liked figure whose friendship was sought after by a wide range of individuals. Connections to leftist literary social circles opened doors …
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body
The Ascent of the Nazis and the Downfall of the Catholic Company, Leo-Film AG
This article explores the political and fiscal circumstances surrounding the demise of the distributor Leo-Film AG of Munich between 1933 and 1935. It shows how Leo-Film, a company closely associated with the Catholic Church, and which had borrowed heavily to sustain its activities during the period of the transition to sound, was brought down due to a Nazi ‘show trial’ that did great damage to the reputation and standing of the Catholic Church i…
James Peacock, Brooklyn Fictions
From its earliest days, New York City has accumulated its fair share of writers. Literary communities such as Greenwich Village and Brooklyn neighborhoods quickly come to mind when one thinks of the New York City author. Over the years, numerous published scholarly works have attempted to analyze the draw the city has generated for would-be writers. In the 21st century, the allure of the metropolis remains ever strong and in this contemporary, th…
Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America
Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Pp. 356. ISBN 978-1-4088-9477-4 Wayne E. Arnold If there is one overarching point to be learned in Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream it is that American political history tends to repeat itself. Sarah Churchwell aptly demonstrates this propensity through a systematic chronology of the politically charg…
Jason Boog, The Deep End
On a return trip to New York City in 1935, Henry Miller wandered around his old stomping ground of Greenwich Village. Writing a friend, he recounts a visit to a restaurant where he found “the ‘Poets’ Corner,’ a dingy Village rendezvous where the Communist poets sit and chew the fat over a cup of pale, greasy coffee. Here is where America’s great poems are made” (Miller 13). Miller’s unflattering description about members of the Raven Poetry Circl…
The Samurai and the Artist
In early 1971, Henry Miller composed Reflections on the Death of Mishima, an essay in which he attempted to formulate his opinions concerning the death of Mishima Yukio on 25 November 1970. Since the text has been greatly overlooked by both Miller and Mishima scholars, uncovering Miller’s composition process and the Japanese publication history through the use of archival materials will encourage a reevaluation Miller’s search for understanding c…
Four Japanese in Search of Henry Miller1
Nearly ten years before the United States Supreme Court ruling that made American author Henry Miller a household name, the Japanese courts had ruled that Miller’s literature was art, and not pornographic. Consequently, beginning in the 1950s, Miller started shifting his attention more intently to the island nation of Japan. With his rising fame across Japan, various Japanese individuals sought to learn more about this controversial figure. By in…
John Burnside, The Music of Time
Somewhere in Arncroach, Scotland, John Burnside is reading and writing. Perhaps he is perusing Henry Miller (his previous Princeton publication was on Miller), or perchance he is delving into unknown poetry from the Ivory Coast; he may very well be working on his eighteenth volume of poetry. Burnside, if nothing else, is a prolific artist and critic. In his most recent publication, The Music of Time, the poet-cum-novelist delivers an expansive re…
Finn Jensen, Henry Miller and Modernism
Finn Jensen, Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930-1939 Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Wayne E. Arnold, Ph.D. The University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan During an interval as a graduate student, I recall a course in which the professor included various novels in tandem with an academic publication covering the same novels. The combination of texts, critical companion, and the professor’s lecture has remained in my mind as the most pro…
John Burnside, On Henry Miller
John Burnside, On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. 175. ISBN 978-0-6911-6687-2. Wayne E. Arnold Reading through Henry Miller’s early draft of Tropic of Capricorn (1939), held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, the reader quickly realizes that Miller made a pretty wise decision to scrap his first draft of the book and continue anew in a completely different vein. Such de…
Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon
Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin Swallow Press, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-8040-1176-1 Wayne E. Arnold The identities Anaïs Nin created surrounding her public and private image are multifold, incongruent, and intentional. What is not intentional, we learn in Anita Jarczok’s new study, is the posthumous alterations to Nin’s persona. In this fascinating walk through Nin’s public-image history, Jarczok …
Harry Kiakis, Henry Miller in Pacific Palisades
Harry Kiakis, Henry Miller in Pacific Palisades: Selections from a Journal Kansas City: Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, 2017. Pp. 228. ISBN: 978-1-5397-7496-9. Wayne E. Arnold University of Kitakyushu, Japan Recording every encounter with a famous individual may appear a bit on the fanatical side; nevertheless, this is exactly what Harry Kiakis did from March 1968 until February 1971, dutifully writing a journal summary after each …
Gerald Koeppel, City on a Grid
Arthur Hoyle, The Unknown Henry Miller
The last two decades have proven relatively quiet concerning biographical advancements on American author Henry Miller. Such being the case, Arthur Hoyle’s recent publication serves as a welcome addition in reviving interest in Miller. Biographies on Miller published in the 1980s and 90s have provided select additional material to Jay Martin’s 1978 definitive work, and after these publications a long spell between biographies has ensued. As Hoyle…
Urban Spaces and Architecturally Defined Identity in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West’s 1933 novella, Miss Lonelyhearts, depicts a New York City that defines its inhabitants through the architectural structures enveloping them. Throughout West’s narration, spaces and places within the city become social critiques, as these locations represent what Henri Lefebvre describes as abstract spaces: various spaces that are multifaceted in their functions due to their shifting—and abstract—relation with a larger environment.…
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Urban Spaces and Architecturally Defined Identity in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West’s 1933 novella, Miss Lonelyhearts, depicts a New York City that defines its inhabitants through the architectural structures enveloping them. Throughout West’s narration, spaces and places within the city become social critiques, as these locations represent what Henri Lefebvre describes as abstract spaces: various spaces that are multifaceted in their functions due to their shifting—and abstract—relation with a larger environment.…
Gerald Koeppel, City on a Grid
Arthur Hoyle, The Unknown Henry Miller
The last two decades have proven relatively quiet concerning biographical advancements on American author Henry Miller. Such being the case, Arthur Hoyle’s recent publication serves as a welcome addition in reviving interest in Miller. Biographies on Miller published in the 1980s and 90s have provided select additional material to Jay Martin’s 1978 definitive work, and after these publications a long spell between biographies has ensued. As Hoyle…
Harry Kiakis, Henry Miller in Pacific Palisades
Harry Kiakis, Henry Miller in Pacific Palisades: Selections from a Journal Kansas City: Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, 2017. Pp. 228. ISBN: 978-1-5397-7496-9. Wayne E. Arnold University of Kitakyushu, Japan Recording every encounter with a famous individual may appear a bit on the fanatical side; nevertheless, this is exactly what Harry Kiakis did from March 1968 until February 1971, dutifully writing a journal summary after each …
John Burnside, On Henry Miller
John Burnside, On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. 175. ISBN 978-0-6911-6687-2. Wayne E. Arnold Reading through Henry Miller’s early draft of Tropic of Capricorn (1939), held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, the reader quickly realizes that Miller made a pretty wise decision to scrap his first draft of the book and continue anew in a completely different vein. Such de…
Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon
Anita Jarczok, Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin Swallow Press, 2017. Pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-8040-1176-1 Wayne E. Arnold The identities Anaïs Nin created surrounding her public and private image are multifold, incongruent, and intentional. What is not intentional, we learn in Anita Jarczok’s new study, is the posthumous alterations to Nin’s persona. In this fascinating walk through Nin’s public-image history, Jarczok …
John Burnside, The Music of Time
Somewhere in Arncroach, Scotland, John Burnside is reading and writing. Perhaps he is perusing Henry Miller (his previous Princeton publication was on Miller), or perchance he is delving into unknown poetry from the Ivory Coast; he may very well be working on his eighteenth volume of poetry. Burnside, if nothing else, is a prolific artist and critic. In his most recent publication, The Music of Time, the poet-cum-novelist delivers an expansive re…
Finn Jensen, Henry Miller and Modernism
Finn Jensen, Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930-1939 Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Wayne E. Arnold, Ph.D. The University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan During an interval as a graduate student, I recall a course in which the professor included various novels in tandem with an academic publication covering the same novels. The combination of texts, critical companion, and the professor’s lecture has remained in my mind as the most pro…
The Samurai and the Artist
In early 1971, Henry Miller composed Reflections on the Death of Mishima, an essay in which he attempted to formulate his opinions concerning the death of Mishima Yukio on 25 November 1970. Since the text has been greatly overlooked by both Miller and Mishima scholars, uncovering Miller’s composition process and the Japanese publication history through the use of archival materials will encourage a reevaluation Miller’s search for understanding c…
Four Japanese in Search of Henry Miller1
Nearly ten years before the United States Supreme Court ruling that made American author Henry Miller a household name, the Japanese courts had ruled that Miller’s literature was art, and not pornographic. Consequently, beginning in the 1950s, Miller started shifting his attention more intently to the island nation of Japan. With his rising fame across Japan, various Japanese individuals sought to learn more about this controversial figure. By in…
James Peacock, Brooklyn Fictions
From its earliest days, New York City has accumulated its fair share of writers. Literary communities such as Greenwich Village and Brooklyn neighborhoods quickly come to mind when one thinks of the New York City author. Over the years, numerous published scholarly works have attempted to analyze the draw the city has generated for would-be writers. In the 21st century, the allure of the metropolis remains ever strong and in this contemporary, th…
Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America
Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Pp. 356. ISBN 978-1-4088-9477-4 Wayne E. Arnold If there is one overarching point to be learned in Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream it is that American political history tends to repeat itself. Sarah Churchwell aptly demonstrates this propensity through a systematic chronology of the politically charg…
Jason Boog, The Deep End
On a return trip to New York City in 1935, Henry Miller wandered around his old stomping ground of Greenwich Village. Writing a friend, he recounts a visit to a restaurant where he found “the ‘Poets’ Corner,’ a dingy Village rendezvous where the Communist poets sit and chew the fat over a cup of pale, greasy coffee. Here is where America’s great poems are made” (Miller 13). Miller’s unflattering description about members of the Raven Poetry Circl…
The Ascent of the Nazis and the Downfall of the Catholic Company, Leo-Film AG
This article explores the political and fiscal circumstances surrounding the demise of the distributor Leo-Film AG of Munich between 1933 and 1935. It shows how Leo-Film, a company closely associated with the Catholic Church, and which had borrowed heavily to sustain its activities during the period of the transition to sound, was brought down due to a Nazi ‘show trial’ that did great damage to the reputation and standing of the Catholic Church i…
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body
Kornelia Boczkowska, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels
Kornelia Boczkowska’s Lost Highways, Embodied Travels aims to reposition how we think about the American road movie by focusing on experimental film and video rather than mainstream cinema. Scholars of the road movie genre have long emphasized iconic films, such as Easy Rider (1969) and Thelma & Louise (1991), with their now-familiar associations of freedom, rebellion, and countercultural identity. Boczkowska’s objective is to reconceptualize the…
Claudia Junghyun Kim, Base Towns
Kenneth Fearing’s Inter-War Social Capital Network
Biographers have portrayed Kenneth Fearing as a cynical, reclusive writer defined by political ambiguity and personal struggles. This article challenges that narrative, emphasizing a vibrant social network as the driving force behind his literary identity. Rather than a committed ideologue, Fearing was a well-liked figure whose friendship was sought after by a wide range of individuals. Connections to leftist literary social circles opened doors …
Nippon rediscovered
Although sound cinema had already reshaped global film culture by the early 1930s, Japan had not yet exported a talking film abroad; instead, European audiences first heard dubbed Japanese voices on screen in Nippon (1932), a German-edited compilation of three silent Japanese films. Notably, after the film reached Paris, French press coverage did not mention that Nippon was a German production. Who brought it and why its German origins were effac…
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