MILLER, J HILLIS, 1928 (3 Ergebnisse)

Miller, J. Hillis, 1928-. On literature. London ; New York: Routledge, 2002, 164pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, very good, but top foredge lightly soiled, previous owner's name in blue ink across front endpaper. Thinking in action. 9780415261258 ISBN 0415261252.

PAPERBACK, covers worn and curled, fold mark on last section of pages, but text itself is very good. MILLER, J. HILLIS. Others. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001, x, 284pp., . This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. From the exquisite close readings for which he is celebrated, Miller reaps a capacious understanding of otherness - one reachable not through theory but through literature itself. Otherness has wide valence in contemporary literary and cultural studies and is often understood as a misconception by hegemonic groups of subaltern ones. In a counter to this, Others conceives of otherness as something that inhabits sameness. Instances of the "wholly other" within the familiar include your sense of self or your beloved, your sense of culture as such, or your experience of literary, theoretical, and philosophical works that belong to your own culture - works that are themselves haunted by otherness. Though Others begins and ends with chapters on theorists, the testimony these theorists offer about otherness is not taken as more compelling than that of such literary works as Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, Conrad's "The secret sharer," Yeats's "Cold Heaven," or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Otherness, as this book finds it in the writers read, is not an abstract concept. It is an elusive feature of specific verbal constructs, different in each case. It can be glimpsed only through close readings that respect this diversity, as the plural in the title - Others - indicates. - CONTENTS: 1. Friedrich Schlegel: Catachreses for Chaos. 2. Charles Dickens: The Other's in Our Mutual Friend. 3. George Eliot: The Roar on the Other Side of Silence. 4. Anthony Trollope: Ideology as Other in Marion Fay. 5. Joseph Conrad: Should We Read Heart of Darkness? 6. Conrad's Secret. 7. W.B. Yeats: "The Cold Heaven" 8. E.M. Forster: Just Reading Howards End. 9. Marcel Proust: Lying as a Recherche Tool. 10. Paul de Man as Allergen. 11. Jacques Derrida's Others. 9780691012230 ISBN 0691012237.

PAPERBACK, very good with some light wear to corners, last twenty pages and rear cover curved backwards. MILLER, J. HILLIS. Others. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001, 1st printing number line starting with 1, x, 284pp., . This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. From the exquisite close readings for which he is celebrated, Miller reaps a capacious understanding of otherness - one reachable not through theory but through literature itself. Otherness has wide valence in contemporary literary and cultural studies and is often understood as a misconception by hegemonic groups of subaltern ones. In a counter to this, Others conceives of otherness as something that inhabits sameness. Instances of the "wholly other" within the familiar include your sense of self or your beloved, your sense of culture as such, or your experience of literary, theoretical, and philosophical works that belong to your own culture - works that are themselves haunted by otherness. Though Others begins and ends with chapters on theorists, the testimony these theorists offer about otherness is not taken as more compelling than that of such literary works as Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, Conrad's "The secret sharer," Yeats's "Cold Heaven," or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Otherness, as this book finds it in the writers read, is not an abstract concept. It is an elusive feature of specific verbal constructs, different in each case. It can be glimpsed only through close readings that respect this diversity, as the plural in the title - Others - indicates. - CONTENTS: 1. Friedrich Schlegel: Catachreses for Chaos. 2. Charles Dickens: The Other's in Our Mutual Friend. 3. George Eliot: The Roar on the Other Side of Silence. 4. Anthony Trollope: Ideology as Other in Marion Fay. 5. Joseph Conrad: Should We Read Heart of Darkness? 6. Conrad's Secret. 7. W.B. Yeats: "The Cold Heaven" 8. E.M. Forster: Just Reading Howards End. 9. Marcel Proust: Lying as a Recherche Tool. 10. Paul de Man as Allergen. 11. Jacques Derrida's Others. 9780691012230 ISBN 0691012237.