Theory Now and ThenTheory Now and Then contains the more overtly theoretical essays by J. Hillis Miller published between 1966 and 1989. These essays trace the trajectory of theory over the last thirty years in the United States: from the "Continental Shift" announced in the Yale Colloquium of 1965, through Miller's assimilation of the work of the Geneva Critics, to the shift to that "deconstruction in America" in which Miller played a conspicuous role. Included here are review essays on other theorists' work: the Geneva Circle including Georges Poulet; Joseph Riddel, Edward Said, Meyer Abrams; and the critics of the "Yale School," such as Jacques Derrida and others, Paul De Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and Harold Bloom, with whom Miller was associated. Exemplary readings of the theorists themselves, and of texts by Milton, Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, George Eliot, Nietzsche, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams punctuate these essays. |
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Page 85
... human creations , the support of the best human values , love , liberty , hope , and the rest . For St Augustine it was " the truth , " founded on an eternal being . For example , Abrams says of St Augustine that in interpreting his own ...
... human creations , the support of the best human values , love , liberty , hope , and the rest . For St Augustine it was " the truth , " founded on an eternal being . For example , Abrams says of St Augustine that in interpreting his own ...
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... human art , But , as it were Titanic ; in the heart Of Earth having assumed its form , then grown Out of the mountains , from the living stone , Lifting itself in caverns light and high : For all the antique and learned imagery Has been ...
... human art , But , as it were Titanic ; in the heart Of Earth having assumed its form , then grown Out of the mountains , from the living stone , Lifting itself in caverns light and high : For all the antique and learned imagery Has been ...
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... human together - mimicking and maintaining that vision of unity which can be seen from the palace . This seascape ... human after all . The prohibition against incest precedes the committing of incest . It precedes the division between ...
... human together - mimicking and maintaining that vision of unity which can be seen from the palace . This seascape ... human after all . The prohibition against incest precedes the committing of incest . It precedes the division between ...
Contents
the criticism of Marcel | 13 |
Georges Poulets Criticism | 31 |
Literature and religion | 63 |
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