The J. Hillis Miller reader. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julian Wolfreys.
• Other Names: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021; Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 454 pages)
• Subjects: 809; Criticism; Literature -- History and criticism; LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays; Criticism; Literature; Bibliografie; Literaturkritik; Literatuurkritiek; Literatuurtheorie; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474473651; 1474473652
• Related ISBNs: 9780748619917; 0748619917; 9780748619924; 0748619925
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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