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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... sense of existence , prior to the identification of any distinct objects , a state of mind more emotive than rational , scarcely differentiated as that of one particular self . Expressions for this quality of mind run all through ...
... sense of existence , prior to the identification of any distinct objects , a state of mind more emotive than rational , scarcely differentiated as that of one particular self . Expressions for this quality of mind run all through ...
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... sense everyone can agree on " is " I , Meyer Abrams , and those I can persuade to accept my reading . " The evidence against the notion of a broad agreement on the plain construed sense of literary works is overwhelming . Any good ...
... sense everyone can agree on " is " I , Meyer Abrams , and those I can persuade to accept my reading . " The evidence against the notion of a broad agreement on the plain construed sense of literary works is overwhelming . Any good ...
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... sense anarchic , a dissolution of pre- existing orders , the opening of a sense of freedom that is like a new earth and a new heaven , an influx of power . The joy of reading is in this sense apocalyptic . It has to do with ...
... sense anarchic , a dissolution of pre- existing orders , the opening of a sense of freedom that is like a new earth and a new heaven , an influx of power . The joy of reading is in this sense apocalyptic . It has to do with ...
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the criticism of Marcel | 13 |
Georges Poulets Criticism | 31 |
Literature and religion | 63 |
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