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Conflagration of Community
Fiction before and after Auschwitz
Häftad, 2011
381 kr
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"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric". "The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. …
Conflagration of Community
Fiction before and after Auschwitz
E-bok, 2011
828 kr
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“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis …
Disappearance of God
FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITERS
Häftad, 2000
558 kr
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A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremostinterpreters 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 Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily BrontË, Matthew Arnold, and …
Ariadne's Thread
Story Lines
Häftad, 1995
586 kr
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"What line should the critic follow in explicating, unfolding, or unknotting . . . passages? How should the critic thread her or his way into the labyrinthine problems of narrative form?—from chapter I In this brilliant and engaging book, one of America's leading literary critics explores the …
On Literature
Häftad, 2002
479 kr
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Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. …
Theory and the Disappearing Future
On de Man, On Benjamin
Av Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2904 kr
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Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture …
Theory and the Disappearing Future
On de Man, On Benjamin
Av Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
749 kr
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Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture …
Fiction and Repetition
Seven English Novels
Häftad, 1985
548 kr
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In Fiction and Repetition, one of our leading critics and literary theorists offers detailed interpretations of seven novels: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The Well-Beloved, Conrad's Lord Jim, and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Between …
Reading for Our Time
'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited
Häftad, 2012
671 kr
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A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be …
Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading
Av J. Hillis Miller, Manuel Asensi
Inbunden, 1999
2883 kr
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This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem—Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. It makes a long trajectory, moving back and forth as an ox plows a field, boustrophedonically, to borrow the figure in Manuel Asensi's …
Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading
Av J. Hillis Miller, Manuel Asensi
Häftad, 1999
688 kr
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This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem—Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. It makes a long trajectory, moving back and forth as an ox plows a field, boustrophedonically, to borrow the figure in Manuel Asensi's …
Speech Acts in Literature
Inbunden, 2002
1445 kr
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This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech …
Speech Acts in Literature
Häftad, 2002
348 kr
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This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech …
Innocent Abroad
Lectures in China
Häftad, 2015
480 kr
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Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of distinctively Chinese forms of literary theory, Comparative Literature, and World Literature. The fifteen …
Innocent Abroad
Lectures in China
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of distinctively Chinese forms of literary theory, Comparative Literature, and World Literature. The fifteen …
Thinking Literature Across Continents
Av Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller
Inbunden, 2016
1820 kr
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Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives-debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of …
Thinking Literature Across Continents
Av Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller
Häftad, 2016
445 kr
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Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives-debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of …
Tropes, Parables, and Performatives
E-bok, 1991
2248 kr
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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 …
Literature As Conduct
Speech Acts in Henry James
Inbunden, 2005
1380 kr
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The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction.Three …
Literature As Conduct
Speech Acts in Henry James
Häftad, 2005
612 kr
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The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction.Three …
For Derrida
Häftad, 2009
547 kr
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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 Derrida" in two senses. It is "for him," dedicated to his memory. The chapters also speak, in acts of reading, …
Communities in Fiction
Inbunden, 2014
1380 kr
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Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.The book's topic is the question of how communities …
Communities in Fiction
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
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Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.The book's topic is the question of how communities …
On Literature
E-bok, 2003
498 kr
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Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. …
On Literature
E-bok, 2003
498 kr
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Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. …
Theory and the Disappearing Future
On de Man, On Benjamin
Av Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
876 kr
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Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture …
Theory and the Disappearing Future
On de Man, On Benjamin
Av Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
857 kr
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Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture …
