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 71
... poem itself as its only adequate commentary , 20 No doubt there is validity in both these views of literature . Each authentic poem is something altogether individual , and even other poems by the same writer are more or less irrelevant ...
... poem itself as its only adequate commentary , 20 No doubt there is validity in both these views of literature . Each authentic poem is something altogether individual , and even other poems by the same writer are more or less irrelevant ...
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... poem . This tradition was taken for granted by a contemporary reader of Chaucer , Spenser , or Milton , and guided the understanding of their poems . The twentieth - century reader must labor to recover the context permitting a just ...
... poem . This tradition was taken for granted by a contemporary reader of Chaucer , Spenser , or Milton , and guided the understanding of their poems . The twentieth - century reader must labor to recover the context permitting a just ...
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... poem in itself , then , is neither the host nor the parasite but the food they both need , host in another sense , the third element in this particular triangle . Both readings are at the same table together , bound by a strange ...
... poem in itself , then , is neither the host nor the parasite but the food they both need , host in another sense , the third element in this particular triangle . Both readings are at the same table together , bound by a strange ...
Contents
the criticism of Marcel | 13 |
Georges Poulets Criticism | 31 |
Literature and religion | 63 |
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