Wandering into Brave New World explores the historical contexts and contemporary sources of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel which, seventy years after its initial publication remains the best known and ...most discussed dystopian work of the twentieth century. This new study addresses a number of questions which still remain open. Did his round-the-world trip in 1925-1926 provide material for the novel? Did India's caste system contribute to the novel's human levels? Is there an overarching pattern to the names of the novel/s characters? Has the role of Hollywood in the novel been underestimated? Is Lenina Crown a representative 1920s "flapper"? Did Huxley have knowledge of and sources for his Indian reservation characters and scenes quite independent of and more accurate than those of D. H. Lawrence's writings? Did Huxley's visit to Borneo contribute anything to the novel? New research allows substantive answers and even explains why Huxley linked such figures as Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud. It also shows how the novel overcomes its intense grounding in 1920s political turmoil to escape into the timelessness of dystopian fiction.
I define fictional drugs as non-existent medicines, intended for human use, that have been invented for the purposes of some forms of fiction, usually novels, but also plays or films, including TV ...dramas. Here I discuss four sources of information about such drugs: Robert Heinlein’s novella Logic of Empire (1941; rhira or happywater); Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965: melange or spice and Water of Life); Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932; soma); and J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (1937–49; athelas). Apart from the last, these examples illustrate the psychotropic nature of many fictional drugs.
Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters examines Huxley's political thinking through an analysis of Brave New World, his most successful political manifesto. This bookhighlights his ...contributions to contemporary political theory.
"An outstanding book."-James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."-Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous ...Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxley's career: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar generation, to the committed pacifist of the 1930s, the spiritual seeker of the 1940s, the psychedelic sage of the 1950s-who affirmed the spiritual potential of mescaline and LSD-to the New Age prophet of Island. While Huxley is still best known as the author of Brave New World, Jake Poller argues that it is The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, and Island-Huxley's blueprint for a utopian society-that have had the most cultural impact.
Dutch literature and the Nobel Prize 1901-1965 Since 1901 no Dutch language author has won the Nobel Prize for literature, which is surprising for a language of 22 million speakers. In how far is it ...possible to explain this? Whereas much research on the prize is about rumours and guessing on poetics, this article turns towards sources that have not been used systematically before: the nomination database 1901-1964 of the Nobel Prize Organisation, recently updated with the year 1965. The article first reconstructs the Swedish nomination behaviour (four winners until 1965) as a background for an analysis of which Dutch authors were nominated by which institutions, and how often. It turns out that there are strong indications for a lack of professionalization in the Dutch literary field of the period and a relatively weak institutional autonomy of the literary field within the field of power in the Netherlands of that time. Finally, this interpretation will be held against the judgments of the Nobel Committee on the nominated Dutch authors.
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley (18941963), Temporaries and Eternals focuses on the music column that Huxley wrote for The Weekly Westminster Gazette in 192223. ...Readers of Huxleys novels, essays and travel writing will be aware of the wealth of musical detail in these works, and this book suggests that such references can only be fully understood in the context of the opinions voiced in Huxleys music criticism. Not only does Huxleys column offer a fascinati.
El siguiente artículo presenta una perspectiva crítica de la sociedad contemporánea, la tecnología y el desarrollo de la ciencia tomando como punto de partida la novela Un mundo feliz del escritor ...Aldous Huxley y la filosofía del francés Jean Baudrillard. Para tal objetivo, se desarrolla la reflexión en dos momentos: en primer lugar, se analiza el prólogo y la narrativa de la novela para mostrar el sentido de la clonación y el confort vacío de la tecnología; en segundo, se aborda la argumentación de Huxley en Nueva visita a un mundo feliz para indicar la necesidad de un viraje en el destino humano; todo esto bajo las nociones de clonación, hiperrealidad y simulación explorados por Baudrillard a lo largo de su obra.
El objetivo de esta contribución es mostrar cómo narrativas de viaje inglesas de los años teinta del siglo pasado coinciden en la construcción de una visión distorsionada del mexicano que radica en ...prejuicios y actitudes colonizadoras. Se someten a análisis tres narrativas inglesas: Mornings in Mexico de D. H. Lawrence (1927), Beyond the Mexique Bay de Aldous Huxley (1934) y The Lawless Roads de Graham Greene (1939). Dentro de estas narrativas se analizan, mediante herramientas de la lingüística cognitiva, los procesos conceptualizadores de categorización y metáfora para la heteroconstrucción identitaria del mexicano como una bestia mediante dos frames: el frame de Animal Salvaje y el frame de Animal Doméstico. Se muestra cómo los novelistas ingleses establecen mediante estos frames un eje de oposición identitaria y, con ello, una estratificación jerárquica entre el hombre civilizado europeo y el mexicano salvaje. Estas heteropercepciones colonizadoras siguen siendo relevantes porque todo apunta a que tienen vigencia hasta nuestros días en muchos discursos actuales que delinean un ideal para la identidad colectiva mexicana.
