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This chapter is a presentation of the two important “counter thinkers”, Rimbaud and Nietzsche, who had great impact on Miller and of the development of Modernism in general. They both go to the extreme in denying all traditional values.
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Notes
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See Chap. 18.
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For a brillant account of his life and works, see Graham Robb: Rimbaud, 2000.
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Noten zur Litteratur I, 1958.
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The Structure of Modern Poetry, 1974, p. 51ff.
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The Portable Nietzsche, Edited and Translated by Walter Kaufmann, 1976 edition, p. 101.
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The Portable Nietzsche, p. 125, 129.
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Jensen, F. (2019). The Two Great Outsiders: Nietzsche and Rimbaud. In: Henry Miller and Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33165-8_3
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