J. Hillis Miller and the play of literature /
This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller, from his earliest writing in the 1950s to those near the time of his death in February 2021 across the genres of his criticism and theory, poetry, fiction, drama, fiction and non-fiction. The book examines Miller'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2024].
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| Series: | Routledge research in American literature and culture.
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| Summary: | This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller, from his earliest writing in the 1950s to those near the time of his death in February 2021 across the genres of his criticism and theory, poetry, fiction, drama, fiction and non-fiction. The book examines Miller's preference for close and careful reading of individual literary and critical works over abstract theory. The study will discuss the member of the so-called Yale School of deconstruction to die but will see him as a reader and lover of literature, someone interested in Georges Poulet and phenomenology and in Jacques Derrida and deconstruction. Miller was concerned about many aspects of literature and life, including the pleasure of reading and writing as in climate change, which he saw as the crisis of our time. Miller was well known in humanities and literature worldwide, one of the greatest of modern critics and theorists. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032648231 1032648236 9781032669267 1032669268 |