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Tropic of Cancer

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

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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Tropic of Cancer

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Tropic of Cancer parallel of latitude at 23°30′ north of the equator; it is the northern boundary of the tropics . This parallel marks the farthest point north at which the sun can be seen directly overhead at noon; north of the parallel the sun appears less than 90° from the southern horizon at any day of the year. The sun reaches its vertical position over the Tropic of Cancer at about June 22, the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. When the Tropic of Cancer was named, the sun was in the constellation Cancer at the time of the summer solstice.

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Cancer, Tropic of

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

Cancer, Tropic of Line of latitude, c.23.5° n of the Equator, which marks the n boundary of the tropics. It indicates the farthest n position at which the Sun appears directly overhead at noon. The Sun is vertical over the Tropic of Cancer on about June 21, the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Tropic of Cancer

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Tropic of Cancer The latitude on Earth at which the Sun lies directly overhead at noon on the June solstice, when it reaches its most northerly declination. The Tropic of Cancer lies at a latitude of about 23½° north.

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Cancer, Tropic of

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Cancer, Tropic of See tropic of cancer.

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