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The J. Hillis Miller Reader
Joseph Hillis MillerJoseph 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
Joseph Hillis MillerJ. Hillis Miller's text deals mainly with Anthony Trollope's Ayala's angel and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
On Literature
Joseph Hillis MillerBut 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.
Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-century Writers
Joseph Hillis MillerThe old generalizations about the nature and use of poetry are no longer applicable, and it is the gradual emergence of new forms, culminating in the work of Williams, that Miller traces and defines.
J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: ...
Eamonn DunneNotes. 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.
Theory now and then
Joseph Hillis MillerThese 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 ...
Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines
J. Hillis MillerUsing 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.
Others
Joseph Hillis MillerThis volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature.
On Literature
Hillis MillerBut 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.
Versions of Pygmalion
Joseph Hillis MillerDiscusses 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
For Derrida
J. MillerThis 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.
Illustration
Joseph Hillis MillerAnd 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
Joseph Hillis MillerThis 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.
Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels
Joseph Hillis MillerA review of Dickens' works stressing the transformation of the real world of Dickens' experience into an imaginary one
Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller
Eamonn DunneReading 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 ...
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James
Joseph Hillis MillerThe 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.
Tropes, Parables, and Performatives
J. Hillis MillerFor 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 ...
The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-century Writers
Joseph Hillis MillerA 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 ...
Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels
J. Hillis MillerMiller 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 ...
German Atrocities: Their Nature and Philosophy (Illustrated ...
Newell Dwight HillisStudies 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
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The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and ...
Newell Dwight HillisNewell 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.
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The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After ...
J. Hillis MillerMy 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 ...
Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave ...
Joseph Calder MillerThroughout, Miller illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.
Communities in Fiction
J. Hillis MillerI 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 : ...
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Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law
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