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Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come

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Description for Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come Paperback. Providing an array of essays, this book explores the dimensions and implications of the work of J. Hillis Miller, one of the most eminent literary scholars in America. These essays offer important resources for grasping the question of language in historical perspective and in contemporary life - a task essential for any democratic future. Editor(s): Cohen, Barbara; Kujundzic, Dragan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 457.

This book is a marker of the “state of theory” today. Its rich array of wideranging essays explores the dimensions and implications of the work of J. Hillis Miller, one of the most eminent literary scholars in America. For nearly half a century, Miller has been known for his close and imaginative engagement with the implications of European philosophical thought and for his passionate advocacy of close reading.
Building on this intellectual legacy, the contributors instantiate and extend the practice and ethics of sustained close reading that is Miller’s hallmark. The book culminates in a moving piece by Jacques ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823224326
SKU
V9780823224326
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About Barbara Cohen
Barbara Cohen is Director of the HumaniTech at the the University of California, Irvine. She is co-editor of Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory. Dragan Kujundžic is Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida. Among his publications is The Returns of History: Russian Nietzscheans after Modernity.

Reviews for Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come
"The essays are centrally ... [involved] with one of Victorian literature's most loved critical readers and teachers in the past half-century." -Studies in English Literature

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