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, non-fiction. The book examines Miller’s prefer...

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Beteilige Person:	Hart, Jonathan Locke 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge research in American literature and culture
Schlagwörter:	Miller, J. Hillis > 1928-2021
Zusammenfassung:	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, 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 last 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 and in climate change, which he saw as the crisis of our time. Miller was well known in humanities and literature worldwide as one of the greatest of modern critics and theorists
Umfang:	xi, 287 Seiten
ISBN:	9781032648231 9781032669267