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Provocations to reading : discourses for a democracy to come / edited by Barbara L. Cohen and Dragan Kujundzic.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021.
- Miller, J. Hillis.
- American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature.
- Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Building on this intellectual legacy, the contributors instantiate and extend the practice and ethics of sustained close reading that is Miller's hallmark. The book culminates in a moving piece by Jacques Derrida, Miller's close friend of forty years, who engages Miller's readings of Gerard Manley Hopkins in a historical encounter between French philosophy and American reading practices.
- Contents:
- Provocations to Reading; Contents; About the Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Ethics of Reading; Chapter 1: ''J'' Is for Jouissance; Chapter 2: Broadening the Horizon: On J. Hillis Miller's Ananarratology; Chapter 3: Finding the Zumbah: An Analysis of Infelicity in Speech Acts in Literature; Chapter 4: Between ''the Cup and the Lip'': Retroactive Constructions of Inheritance in Our Mutual Friend; Chapter 5: Hillis's Charity; Part II: The Politics of Form; Chapter 6: ''J''; or, Hillis le mal; Chapter 7: The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller
- Chapter 8: On the LineChapter 9: War on Terror; Chapter 10: American Literary Studies and American Cultural Studies in the Times of the National Emergency: J's Paradoxes; Part III: Justices; Chapter 11: ''J'' Is for Just a Minute: It's Miller Time When It Shimmers; Chapter 12: Three Literary Theorists in Search of 0; Chapter 13: Justices; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- "The essays in this collection grow out of a conference titled "'J': Around the work of J. Hillis Miller," held at the University of California, Irvine, on April 18 and 19 of 2003"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-7509-4
- 0-8232-2433-3
- OCLC:
- 923762890
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