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Tropes, parables, performatives : essays on twentieth-century literature / J. Hillis Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English-speaking countries--Intellectual life--20th century.
- English-speaking countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [1991]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 framed by three words: "trope," "parable," and "performative."Throughout these essays Miller is fascinated with the tropological dimension of literary language, with the way figures of speech turn aside the telling of a story or the presentation of a literary theme. The exploration of this turning leads
- Contents:
- D. H. Lawrence: The Fox and the perspective glass
- Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation
- Wallace Stevens' poetry of being
- Williams' poetry of resignation
- Thomas Hardy: a sketch for a portrait Williams' Spring and All and the progress of poetry
- History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex Heights"
- Parable and performative in the Gospels and in modern literature
- Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The rhythm of creativity in To the Lighthouse
- Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls"
- Heart of Darkness revisited
- Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's "In Front of the Landscape"
- Impossible metaphor: (Stevens' "The Red Fern" asexample)
- When is a Primitive like an Orb?
- Prosopopoeinia Hardy and Stevens.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed March 4, 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9786612923708
- 9781282923706
- 1282923706
- 9780822390688
- 082239068X
- OCLC:
- 226068377
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