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 273
... responsibility for the humanities and within the humanities depends now , as it always has , on allowing that interrogation to take place . This new taking of responsibility for language and literature , for the language of literature ...
... responsibility for the humanities and within the humanities depends now , as it always has , on allowing that interrogation to take place . This new taking of responsibility for language and literature , for the language of literature ...
Page 297
Joseph Hillis Miller. primary responsibility is to that . I would alter Yeats ' " in dreams begins responsibility " to say , “ in reading begins responsibility . " Now I am not so naive as to think that reading is ever altogether ...
Joseph Hillis Miller. primary responsibility is to that . I would alter Yeats ' " in dreams begins responsibility " to say , “ in reading begins responsibility . " Now I am not so naive as to think that reading is ever altogether ...
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... responsibility to pass on to his or her students . This would follow as an inevitable consequence if reading has those qualities of surprise and inaugural novelty I claim it has . The reader rarely finds in those venerable poems ...
... responsibility to pass on to his or her students . This would follow as an inevitable consequence if reading has those qualities of surprise and inaugural novelty I claim it has . The reader rarely finds in those venerable poems ...
Contents
the criticism of Marcel | 13 |
Georges Poulets Criticism | 31 |
Literature and religion | 63 |
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