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This, the first reader of Miller’s work in English, is an indispensable overview and introduction to one of the most original and challenging critical voices to have emerged since the…
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J. Hillis Miller
Der vorliegende Band ist eine neue thematisch orientierte Zusammenstellung von Hillis Millers jungeren Arbeiten, die alle um die eine Frage kreisen: warum und wozu Literaturwissenschaft, oder im erweiterten Sinne ‘Kulturwissenschaft’…
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The film-book The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller is based on the documentary film by the same name made in 2010 by Dragan Kujundzic. With essays by Henry Sussman, Sarah…
Jonathan Locke Hart
This book discusses the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller, a great critic and theorist, from his earliest writing to his death in 2021 on poetry, fiction…
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Thomas Hardy
In late nineteenth century England, a poor stonemason has ambitions of attending a university and becoming a scholar.
Providing an array of essays, this book explores the dimensions and implications of the work of J. Hillis Miller, one of the most eminent literary scholars in America. These essays…
J. Hillis Miller,Manuel Asensi
This work juxtaposes two works by different authors. Black Holes by J. Hillis Miller analyses changes in the contemporary research university in the west. Manuel Asensi’s J. Hillis Miller, or…
Dr Eamonn Dunne,Amonn Dunne
The first book-length study of a highly influential literary theorist and critic.
Dr Eamonn Dunne
The first book-length study of a highly influential literary theorist and critic. >
Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad.
This collection brings together eleven interviews with J Hillis Miller from 1987 to 2014 conducted by distinguished scholars and critics from China, England, Ireland, and the United States.
David Bayot
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…
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…
Communities in Fiction reads in detail six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily)…
Focuses on Derrida’s late work, including passages from the last, as yet unpublished, seminars. This book aims to render Derrida’s writings justice. It should be remembered, however, that, according to…
Demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory. After an introductory chapter that explores J. L. Austin’s How to Do things with Words in detail, the book goes on…
This new collection of J. Hillis Miller’s essays centres on the question why and to what end should we read, teach, and spend our time with literary and/or cultural studies?
This book investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question of topography. The author considers questions such as: What is the function of landscape or cityscape descriptions in…
Includes chapters that focus on Jacques Derrida’s late work, including passages from the last. This book presents a series of perspectives on the heterogeneity of Derrida’s work, or forays into…
Helps you understand the nexus between the literary world and contemporary communication (iPhone et al) in its different facets.
An exploration of the intricacies of narrative theory. Considering a range of texts from Western literature over the past two centuries, Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language…
After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric. This title challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after The Holocaust , arguing for the possibility of literature…
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. This title considers how…
In Fiction and Repetition, one of our leading critics and literary theorists offers detailed interpretations of seven novels: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Thackeray’s Henry Esmond, Hardy’s Tess of the d'Urbervilles…
Although many books deal individually with each of the major writers treated in Poets of Reality, none attempts through analyses of these particular men and their works, to identify the…
A masterclass in attentive reading offering brilliant insights into two of George Eliot’s novels
Investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W B Yeats, E M Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and…
J. Miller,Miller
Focuses on five Victorian authors - Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Thomas DeQuincey, and Gerard Manley Hopkins - to present their various responses to crises of faith in the…
Ranjan Ghosh,J. Hillis Miller
Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives-debate and reflect upon what literature is, can be, and do in variety of contexts ranging…
Written by a team of international scholars, this book offers an interdisciplinary study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy. Discussing the relevance of traditional Chinese philosophy for the global age, it takes…
Brian R. Pellar
After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future…
Written by a team of international scholars, this book offers an in-depth study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Discussing the relevance of traditional Chinese philosophy for the…
Gary A. Olson
The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish’s nonliterary writings.
Tom Cohen,Claire Colebrook,J. Hillis Miller
Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, in Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most…
Tom Cohen,Barbara Cohen
Renowned contributors use the late work of this crucial figure to open new speculations on materiality.
A material event, in one of Paul de Man’s definitions, is a piece of…
For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is…
Tom Cohen,Claire Colebrook,J. Hillis Miller,with a manuscript by Paul de Man
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 text, written by three leading…
Dr Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University)
This collection of poetry and essays by Professor Julian Wolfreys includes numerous photographs and paintings and takes us on a journey through: our sense of place ~ grief and trauma…
