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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... performative praxis . It does not in itself give knowledge . We need theory now and then , to help us get on with the serious business of reading . If each performative speech act is unique , for just this time , place , and occasion ...
... performative praxis . It does not in itself give knowledge . We need theory now and then , to help us get on with the serious business of reading . If each performative speech act is unique , for just this time , place , and occasion ...
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... performative . It is revelation . It brings the hidden spark or spirit back into the open . Good reading or good criticism repeats in its turn what Williams repeated from Rasles ' Lettres édifiantes . Good reading also is productive ...
... performative . It is revelation . It brings the hidden spark or spirit back into the open . Good reading or good criticism repeats in its turn what Williams repeated from Rasles ' Lettres édifiantes . Good reading also is productive ...
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... performative , that it makes things happen , that it is a way of doing things with words , and no one can doubt that the teaching of literature always has a political component , perhaps most when I am most silent about its political ...
... performative , that it makes things happen , that it is a way of doing things with words , and no one can doubt that the teaching of literature always has a political component , perhaps most when I am most silent about its political ...
Contents
the criticism of Marcel | 13 |
Georges Poulets Criticism | 31 |
Literature and religion | 63 |
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