J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature

di Jonathan Locke Hart (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023

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 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. We all write and read and are interested in what is truth and what is fiction, so Miller speaks to all of us. He especially speaks to those who love literature and remember the magic of coming to books as a child and the innocence we carry with us in the joy of reading despite our professional lives and the challenges and harshness of the world and reality. Climate change is a pressing matter and it matters to Miller and all of us however we feel about it and whatever we think about it. Miller was well known in humanities and literature worldwide, one of the greatest of modern critics and theorists.

• Autore: Jonathan Locke Hart
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 712 gr.
• EAN: 9781032648231

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