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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Contents
reflections on the Yale Colloquium | 1 |
the criticism of Marcel Raymond Albert Béguin Georges Poulet Jean Rousset JeanPierre Richard and Jean Starobinski | 13 |
Georges Poulets Criticism of identification | 31 |
Literature and religion | 63 |
Tradition and difference | 79 |
Deconstructing the deconstructers | 95 |
literary criticism | 111 |
Stevens Rock and criticism as cure II | 117 |
Gleichnis in Nietzsches Also Sprach Zarathustra | 277 |
How deconstruction works | 293 |
Presidents column | 295 |
Responsibility and the joy? of teaching | 297 |
The obligation to write | 299 |
The future for the study of languages and literatures | 302 |
The imperative to teach | 305 |
The triumph of theory the resistance to reading and the question of the material base | 309 |
Beginning with a text | 133 |
The critic as host | 143 |
the crossways of contemporary criticism | 171 |
The function of rhetorical study at the present time | 201 |
whats the difference? | 217 |
deconstruction and the teaching of writing | 227 |
Constructions in criticism | 245 |
The search for grounds in literary study | 263 |
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Abrams act of reading affirm allegory American appears assumptions attempt beginning Béguin called canon catachresis Cogito concept consciousness context critique culture deconstruction defined différance English essay example expression fact fiction figurative language Freud George Eliot Georges Poulet ground Heidegger host human humanistic idea identified insight interpretation Jacques Derrida Jean Starobinski linguistic literary criticism literary history literary study literary theory Man's Marcel Raymond material base Matthew Arnold means metaphor metaphysics metonymy mind mise en abyme modern narrative nature Nietzsche nihilism notion novel object origin parable parasite passage perhaps philosophy poem poet poetry political Poulet Poulet's criticism present prosopopoeia Proust reader relation religious Resistance to Theory rhetoric Riddel's romanticism Rousseau sense Shelley speak spirit Stevens structure study of literature T. S. Eliot teachers teaching things thought tradition translation tropes University Wallace Stevens Williams words Wordsworth writing Zarathustra