Provocations to reading : J. Hillis Miller and the democracy to come
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 offer important resources for grasping the question of language in historical perspective and in contemporary life - a task essential for any democratic future.
Print Book, English, 2005
Fordham University Press, New York, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxi, 313 pages ; 23 cm
9780823224326, 9780823224319, 0823224325, 0823224317
488800671
"J" is for Jouissance / Juliet Flower MacCannell
Broadening the horizon: on J. Hillis Miller's ananarratology / Dan Shen
Finding the Zumbah: an analysis of infelicity in speech acts in literature / Glenn Odom
Between "the cup and the lip": retroactive constructions of inheritance in our mutual friend / Larisa Tokmakoff Castillo
"J"; or Hillis le mal / Tom Cohen
The afterlife of Judaism: the Zohar, Benjamin, Miller / Henry Sussman
On the line / Alexander Gelley
War on terror / Marc Redfield
American literary studies and American cultural studies in the times of the national emergency: J's paradoxes / Donald Pease
"J" is for just a minute: it's Miller time when it shimmers / Peggy Kamuf
Three literary theorists in search of 0 / J. Hillis Miller
Justices / Jacques Derrida
"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"--Preface
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