Tropic of Cancer
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Tropic of Cancer, novel in the form of a personal narrative by
Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1934 but censored in the U.S., where it was not printed until 1961.
In a first‐person monologue that is heavily anecdotal and quasi‐philosophic, it tells of the life of an expatriate American author in Paris during the 1920s and '30s. By turns angry and humorous, it presents very frankly the doings of an impoverished artist, including his sexual experiences, which are good when animated by love and when not are viewed as being as vulgar as the ultimate obscenity of inertia.
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The Tropic of Cancer: the complete guide to The Tropic of Cancer Midsummer means you must take care when 23 degrees and 27 minutes north of the Equator: on 21 June the sun is directly overhead at noon, defining the Tropic of Cancer. This invisible line of latitude offers a world of opportunities - just remember a hat.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; WHY THE STRANGE NAME? Cancer is the Latin word for crab...Meridian (longitude zero), the Tropic of Cancer is in Algeria. Not...crossing the Arabian Sea, the Tropic journeys through India, Bangladesh...crossing the Atlantic. The Tropic makes landfall in West Africa...
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Heishiding -a wonderland along the Tropic of Cancer
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 4/28/2006; ; 570 words
; ...largest virgin forests near the Tropic of Cancer. Covering an area of more...other places that neighbour the Tropic of Cancer. The north latitude...the northern boundary of the tropics. Its parallel marks the farthest...vertical position at noon over the Tropic of Cancer ...
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THE TROPIC OF CANCER: ECLIPSED BY THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/16/2001; ; 591 words
; ...cover much the same area as this, favouring the Tropic of Capricorn once more. The Tropic of Cancer gets its own back in 2006 and 2009. The former...before ending with the sunset almost at the Tropic of Capricorn. The next total eclipse visible...
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Guangxi Builds Tower to Mark Tropic of Cancer
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 3/26/1997; 350 words
; A tower to mark the Tropic of Cancer, located at 23.26 degrees north latitude the borderline of the tropic and temperate zones has been built...India, are the only areas along the Tropic of Cancer that have pleasant weather...
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Publisher refuses to perish quietly Battle continues for man who fought for `Tropic of Cancer,' `Naked Lunch'
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...life, of the battles to publish "Tropic of Cancer" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover...Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Tropic of Cancer," by Henry Miller...to let Grove Press distribute "Tropic of Cancer" in the United States...
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Tropic of Cancer By Henry Miller
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/26/2009; ; 658 words
; ...turned the wrong way round with the spine hidden was Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller. Their idea was, no doubt...Beneath a cherry tree, I started again to read Tropic of Cancer. What came across was not the graphic sex or the...
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Sole Tropical Rain Forest Near Tropic of Cancer under Protection
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 6/12/1998; 409 words
; ...to protect the sole tropical rain forest near the Tropic of Cancer by establishing a nature reserve." The tropical...Province, is the sole tropical rain forest left near the Tropic of Cancer, and it is also the one at the highest latitude on...
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Literary text, cinematic "edition": adaptation, textual authority, and the filming of Tropic of Cancer.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Strick's controversial adaptation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer provides just such an example, as Miller's novel...the narrator than it does about the object itself. Tropic of Cancer, dependent as it is on effusive language and interior...
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South- Way South- Of the Border; Beyond the Tropic of Cancer Lies Mexico's Land of the Endless Summer
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/1/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...winding estuaries, extravagant jungle. You have crossed the Tropic of Cancer, that invisible boundary 23 1/2 degrees north of the Equator...the lands of frost and fire, the temperate zone from the tropics. Welcome to Endless Summer, with its rain forests, orchids...
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Town of Swallows on Tropic of Cancer
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 6/22/1996; 488 words
; ...plagued by mosquitoes, and persecuted by their nasty bites. But in China's Mojiang township - which lies on the Tropic of Cancer - a strange phenomenon has given locals a respite from the insect invaders. Up to half a million swallows have decided...
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Tropic of Cancer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tropic of Cancer parallel of latitude at 23...northern boundary of the tropics . This parallel marks the...vertical position over the Tropic of Cancer at about June 22...Northern Hemisphere. When the Tropic of Cancer was named, the...
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Cancer, Tropic of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Cancer, Tropic of Line of latitude, c. 23.5...which marks the n boundary of the tropics. It indicates the farthest n position...noon. The Sun is vertical over the Tropic of Cancer on about June 21, the summer solstice...
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tropics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tropics also called tropical...situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1/2 °N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat...Every point within the tropics receives the perpendicular...temperature of the tropics is higher and the...
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tropic
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
tropic the parallel of latitude 23°26′ north ( tropic of Cancer ) or south ( tropic of Capricorn ) of the equator; the tropics is the name given to the region between the tropics...
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Tropic of Capricorn
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Tropic of Capricorn, novel in the form of a personal narrative by Henry Miller...censorship not printed in the U.S. until 1962. In a form like that of Tropic of Cancer the autobiographical account describes the writer's boyhood in Brooklyn...
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