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The J. Hillis Miller Reader

The J. Hillis Miller Reader

Joseph Hillis Miller

Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys. practice of reading. It is this modernism that led us to a discovery that we live in the unfigurable (un)universe, the un-universe of the unfigurable, invoked by Blanchot, who also asks: But will [man] ever be ...
Black Holes

Black Holes

Joseph Hillis Miller

J. Hillis Miller's text deals mainly with Anthony Trollope's Ayala's angel and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: ...

J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: ...

Eamonn Dunne

Notes. Preface. 1. For an insightful essay on this topic see also “How About a Game of Tennis?” by Megan Becker-Leckrone in The J. Hillis Miller Reader ed. Julian Wolfreys (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), pp. 289–294.
Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines

Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines

J. Hillis Miller

Using the image of Ariadne's thread, which was given to Theseus to carry into the labyrinth so that he could find his way out, J. Hillis Miller traces out the "line" so often associated with narrative and writing in general.
On Literature

On Literature

Joseph Hillis Miller

But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book.
On Literature

On Literature

Hillis Miller

But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book.
For Derrida

For Derrida

J. Miller

This book-the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida's writings and seminars-is for Derridain two senses.
Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-century Writers

Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-century Writers

Joseph Hillis Miller

The old generalizations about the nature and use of poetry are no longer applicable, and it is the gradual emergence of new forms, culminating in the work of Williams, that Miller traces and defines.
Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller

Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller

Eamonn Dunne

Reading Theory Now explores movements in critical thinking through a host of radical theorists, and channels those movements through the work of one of the most influential proponents of critical interpretation in the world today, J. Hillis ...
Tropes, Parables, and Performatives

Tropes, Parables, and Performatives

J. Hillis Miller

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 ...
Theory now and then

Theory now and then

Joseph Hillis Miller

These essays trace the trajectory of theory over the last thirty years in the United States: from the “Continental Shift” announced in the Yale Colloquium of 1965, through Miller’s assimilation of the work of the Geneva Critics, to ...
Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels

Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels

J. Hillis Miller

Miller explores the multifarious ways in which repetition generates meaning in these novels-repetition of images, metaphors, motifs; repetition on a larger scale of episodes, characters, plots; and repetition from one novel to another by ...
Others

Others

Joseph Hillis Miller

This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature.
German Atrocities: Their Nature and Philosophy (Illustrated ...

German Atrocities: Their Nature and Philosophy (Illustrated ...

Newell Dwight Hillis

Studies in Belgium and France During July and August of 1917. First published in 1918. Hillis was an American Congregationalist minister, writer and philosopher.
Military Order of World Wars

Military Order of World Wars

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The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and ...

The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and ...

Newell Dwight Hillis

Newell Dwight Hillis. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict By NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D. D. Foreword These are days of destiny for the people of TheBattle of Principles.
Versions of Pygmalion

Versions of Pygmalion

Joseph Hillis Miller

Discusses the ethics of writing and reading fiction, the creation and action of characters, and works by Henry James, Melville, Heinrich von Kleist, and Maurice Blanchot
Illustration

Illustration

Joseph Hillis Miller

And for the new form these readings take, the reader-critic must in turn assume responsibility. The author investigates one topic of importance for cultural studies: the relation of verbal and visual forms in the multimedia works.
Topographies

Topographies

Joseph Hillis Miller

This book investigates the function of topographical names and descriptions in a variety of narratives, poems, and philosophical or theoretical texts, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, but including also Plato and the Bible.
The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After ...

The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After ...

J. Hillis Miller

My interest in this chapter is in the way Kafka's work preprograms the form fiction about Auschwitz took, as well as in its uncanny anticipations of what the Shoah would be like. As Russell Samolsky has shown in a forthcoming book on “marked  ...
Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels

Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels

Joseph Hillis Miller

A review of Dickens' works stressing the transformation of the real world of Dickens' experience into an imaginary one
Communities in Fiction

Communities in Fiction

J. Hillis Miller

I thank Rosemarie Morgan for sending me this citation from the first edition. 8. Rosemarie Morgan informs me that the phrase in question appears in E. B Tylor's Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, 2 vols (London : ...
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James

Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James

Joseph Hillis Miller

The work of a master critic, this book draws on speech act theory, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in Henry James's fiction.
Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law

Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law

Larry J. Siegel

... Miller, Brenda, 169m34, 314n 117, n.135 Miller, Darcy, 272nd Miller, Donna J., 543 Miller, J. Mitchell, 588 Miller, Jerome, 604n8 Miller, Jody, 236m46, 258,265,273n52, 274m.126, 275m153, 330, 359n'78, 361n 163,381, 396n83 Miller, ...
The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and ...

The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and ...

Florian Sedlmeier

... Zapf AdvisoryBoard Laurel Brinton, Philip Durkin,Olga Fischer, Susan Irvine, AndrewJames Johnston, Christopher A. Jones, Terttu Nevalainen, Derek Attridge , Elisabeth Bronfen, UrsulaK. Heise, Verena Lobsien, Laura Marcus, J.Hillis Miller , ...
The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-century Writers

The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-century Writers

Joseph Hillis Miller

A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De ...
The Miller Family Newsletter: Including the Allens, Camps, ...

The Miller Family Newsletter: Including the Allens, Camps, ...

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Martha MILLER [Source Material provided by: Virginia Miller Carey / 3400 Foothill Parkway / Austin, TX 78731-5825 / (512) 453-4696] 1. John MILLER sp. Cordelia Athelston HANKS (of same HANKS. 1. John MILLER (came to Pittsylvania Cty, ...
The Miller families of Ashe County, NC

The Miller families of Ashe County, NC

Danny Miller

Julie Faye Richardson married George Harvey (as his second wife) . Child: 623. Danny Harvey 353. Francis Marion Miller, born 9 May 1939 married first Jean Liddle and second Eilene Miller, daughter of Worth and Aulsey (Stidhams) Miller.

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