Dr Eamonn Dunne (PhD, University College Dublin) teaches English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in the Republic of Ireland and is an External Marker for the National University of Ireland, Mayrooth. His research areas include speech act theory, narratology, contemporary continental philosophy, and twentieth-century movements in literary theory and criticism. He has had articles and reviews published in Textual Practice and Derrida Today.

"J. Hillis Miller is very likely the most happily influential critic of the last fifty years, issuing provocative book after book and conducting his prodigious education generously right before our eyes. Eamonn Dunne's study is a wonderfully responsive, careful but by no means reverential discussion of some of Hillis' leading preoccupations and their lasting implications. The book is especially useful in its analysis of the ethics of reading, of various shades of irony, and, most generally, of what happens when we read and write about what we love." -- James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California, USA.

• Introduction1. Reading as Conduct2. Fugal Reading3. Double Reading4. Protocols of Reading5. Reading Parable6. Just ReadingConclusionCoda: Interview: "For the Reader to Come"Bibliography

Dr Eamonn Dunne (PhD, University College Dublin) teaches English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in the Republic of Ireland and is an External Marker for the National University of Ireland, Mayrooth. His research areas include speech act theory, narratology, contemporary continental philosophy, and twentieth-century movements in literary theory and criticism. He has had articles and reviews published in Textual Practice and Derrida Today.

"J. Hillis Miller is very likely the most happily influential critic of the last fifty years, issuing provocative book after book and conducting his prodigious education generously right before our eyes. Eamonn Dunne's study is a wonderfully responsive, careful but by no means reverential discussion of some of Hillis' leading preoccupations and their lasting implications. The book is especially useful in its analysis of the ethics of reading, of various shades of irony, and, most generally, of what happens when we read and write about what we love." -- James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California, USA.

• Introduction1. Reading as Conduct2. Fugal Reading3. Double Reading4. Protocols of Reading5. Reading Parable6. Just ReadingConclusionCoda: Interview: "For the Reader to Come"Bibliography

Dr Eamonn Dunne (PhD, University College Dublin) teaches English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in the Republic of Ireland and is an External Marker for the National University of Ireland, Mayrooth. His research areas include speech act theory, narratology, contemporary continental philosophy, and twentieth-century movements in literary theory and criticism. He has had articles and reviews published in Textual Practice and Derrida Today.

"J. Hillis Miller is very likely the most happily influential critic of the last fifty years, issuing provocative book after book and conducting his prodigious education generously right before our eyes. Eamonn Dunne's study is a wonderfully responsive, careful but by no means reverential discussion of some of Hillis' leading preoccupations and their lasting implications. The book is especially useful in its analysis of the ethics of reading, of various shades of irony, and, most generally, of what happens when we read and write about what we love." -- James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California, USA.

• Introduction1. Reading as Conduct2. Fugal Reading3. Double Reading4. Protocols of Reading5. Reading Parable6. Just ReadingConclusionCoda: Interview: "For the Reader to Come"Bibliography