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Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited
Miller
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Description for Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited
Paperback. A masterclass in attentive reading offering brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech. By relating mistakes like Dorothea's about Casaubon to current affairs, Miller's 'readings for today' can help us to come to terms with our human, social and political situation and even inspire us to act to ... Read more
A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech. By relating mistakes like Dorothea's about Casaubon to current affairs, Miller's 'readings for today' can help us to come to terms with our human, social and political situation and even inspire us to act to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748647286
SKU
V9780748647286
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About Miller
J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at Irvine. He has published many books and essays on 19th and 20th-century literature and on literary theory. His most recent books are For Derrida and The Medium is the Maker: Browning, Freud, Derrida, and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts ... Read more
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