Title Tropes, parables, performatives : essays on twentieth-century literature / J. Hillis Miller

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents D.H. Lawrence: The Fox and the perspective glass -- Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation -- Wallace Stevens' poetry of being -- Williams' poetry of resignation -- Thomas Hardy: a sketch for a portrait Williams' Spring and All and the progress of poetry -- History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex Heights" -- Parable and performative in the Gospels and in modern literature -- Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The rhythm of creativity in To the Lighthouse -- Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls" -- Heart of Darkness revisited -- Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's "In Front of the Landscape" -- Impossible metaphor: (Stevens' "The Red Fern" asexample) -- When is a Primitive like an Orb? -- Prosopopoeinia Hardy and Stevens Summary Tropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Miller's essays on seven major twentieth-century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy, and Conrad. For all their evident differences, these essays from early to late explore a single intuition about literature, which may be framed by three words: "trope," "parable," and "performative."Throughout these essays Miller is fascinated with the tropological dimension of literary language, with the way figures of speech turn aside the telling of a story or the presentation of a literary theme. The exploration of this turning leads Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, (1882-1941) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Lawrence, David Herbert, (1885-1930) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Stevens, Wallace, (1879-1955) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Conrad, Joseph, (1857-1924) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Williams, William Carlos, (1883-1963) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Stevens, Wallace. swd Hardy, Thomas. swd Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. American literature English literature Intellectual life Literatur Aufsatzsammlung Geschichte (1870-1970) SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject English-speaking countries USA Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822390688 082239068X 1282923706 9781282923706 9786612923708 6612923709

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