| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 英國語文學研究所 === 83 === Henry Miller is famous/notorious for a long time as an
autobiographer coupled with sexual descriptions. Some critics
tend to take Miller''s auto-novel for a sheer autobiography,
thereby identifying the narrator with the autor. In fact,
sexuality is merely one of Miller''s characteristic narrative
strategies opposing to the institutions and establishments.
One of his searing assaults is directed toward family, society,
tradition, and God, all embody and reify his disappointments
toward the inert human nature and dehumanized institutions.
This thesis deals with the important themes as represented in
Miller''s Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn and attempts
to illustrate his fragmentary and schizophrenic narrative
strategy. I use the conceptions of nomad, body without oragns,
desiring- machines and rhizome adopted from Deleuze and
Guattari''s Anti- Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, and Kafka to
detect Miller''s spirit of deterritorialization. This thesis is
divided into three parts: Chapter One deals with how Miller
approaches his line of flight through the nomadic spirit and
body without organs. Chapter Two Probes into the consummation
of desiring-production through Miller''s description of
sexuality and humanity. Chapter Three emphasizes the crucial
points of the minor literature through the functioning of
Miller''s language and rhizomatic structure. The final goal of
the thesis tries to situate Miller''s texts in the free spirit
of deterritorialization from the institutions.
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