| Description |
1 online resource (x, 454 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface / J. Hillis Miller and Julian Wolfreys -- Introduction : responsibilities of J or, aphorism's other / Julian Wolfreys -- I. The ethics of reading -- 1. The critic as host -- 2. The ethics of narration -- 3. The ethics of reading : vast gaps and parting hours -- 4. Reading telling : Kant -- Miller's tale / Derek Attridge -- To read a picture / Mieke Bal -- J. Hillis Miller : Miller's [actual symbol not reproducible] (under erasure) / Juliet Flower MacCannell -- II. Victorian interests -- 5. Emily Bronte -- 6. The creation of the self in Gerard Manley Hopkins -- 7. Hardy -- The critic as Orpheus / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Hillis among the Victorians / James R. Kincaid -- III. Twentieth-century occasions -- 8. Mrs. Dalloway : repetition as the raising of the dead -- 9. Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation -- 10. Wallace Steven's poetry of being -- 'Poised in their irreconciliation' : literary loss and recovery in J. Hillis Miller's twentieth-century occasions / Thomas Albrecht -- 'When the gods dissolve like clouds' : modernism, modernity, and the space of literature / Arkady Plotnitsky -- Ghostly preoccupations : response to J. Hillis Miller, 'the ethics of topography : Stevens' / Nicholas Royle -- IV. Practice and theory -- 11. Line -- 12. How to read literature -- 13. The problematic of ending in narrative -- 14. The function of literary theory at the present time -- 15. What is iterability? -- 16. 'Je t'aime' -- 17. A profession of faith -- 'How about a game of tennis?' / Megan Becker-Leckrone -- Response to J. Hillis Miller, 'a profession of faith' / Rachel Bowlby -- Hillis Miller : Flaneur of the archive / Tom Cohen -- V. Pedagogical and political commitments -- 18. Paul de Man's wartime writings -- 19. President's column -- 20. The imperative to teach -- 21. Politicizing art -- what are cultural studies? -- 22. Literary study in the transnational university -- (c)(s)i(gh)ting the ungovernable translation / John P. Leavey, Jr. -- J. Hillis Miller : in print and online / Barbara L. Cohen -- Why literature? : a profession : an interview with J. Hillis Miller -- Bibliography of works by J. Hillis Miller -- J. Hillis Miller : a brief professional chronology |
| Summary |
This, the first reader of Miller's work in English, is an indispensable overview and introduction to one of the most original and challenging critical voices to have emerged since the inception of the teaching of English and American literature in universities in the English-speaking world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Miller, J. Hillis, 1928- |
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Miller, Joseph Hillis (Philologe) |
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Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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17.82 literary criticism.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Criticism
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Literature
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Bibliografie
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Literaturkritik
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Literatuurkritiek.
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Literatuurtheorie.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
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| ISBN |
9781474473651 |
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1474473652 |
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