Miller Hillis 1928 (7 results)

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.

1st edition. Library copy with remaining marks. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Pages 21-52 missing. Physical description; vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Two forms of repetition -- 2. Lord Jim : repetition as subversion of organic form -- 3. Wuthering Heights : repetition and the "uncanny" -- 4. Henry Esmond : repetition and irony -- 5. Tess of the d'Urbervilles : repetition as immanent design -- 6. The Well-beloved : the compulsion to stop repeating -- 7. Mrs. Dalloway : repetition as the raising of the dead -- 8. Between the acts : repetition as extrapolation. Subjects; Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928. Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863. Brontë, Emily 1818-1848. Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 History and criticism. Brontë, Emily 1818-1848. English fiction History and criticism. Repetition (Rhetoric). Fiction Technique. Repetition in literature. English fiction. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. 1 Kg.

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.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 330 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The creation of the self in Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Orion" in "The wreck of the Deutschland" -- What the lonely child saw: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist -- The theme of the disappearance of God in Victorian poetry -- Money in Our mutual friend -- Some implications of form in Victorian fiction -- Three problems of fictional form: first-person narration in David Copperfield and Huckleberry Finn -- The sources of Dickens' comic art: from American notes to Martin Chuzzlewit -- The fiction of realism: Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, and Cruikshank's illustrations -- Interpretation in Dickens' Bleak house -- Nature and the linguistic moment -- Béguin, Balzac, Trollope and the double double analogy -- Middlemarch, chapter 85 -- The ethics of reading: vast gaps and parting hours -- The truth will out: Anthony Trollope's Cousin Henry -- The values of obduracy in Trollope's Lady Anna -- Trollope's Thackeray -- Theology and logology in Victorian literature -- The two rhetorics: George Eliot's bestiary -- "Hieroglyphical truth" in Sartor resartus: Carlyle and the language of parable. Subjects; English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Victorian Period. Victorian Literature. History. 19th Century. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Library copy with remaining marks. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Pages 21-52 missing. Physical description; vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Two forms of repetition -- 2. Lord Jim : repetition as subversion of organic form -- 3. Wuthering Heights : repetition and the "uncanny" -- 4. Henry Esmond : repetition and irony -- 5. Tess of the d'Urbervilles : repetition as immanent design -- 6. The Well-beloved : the compulsion to stop repeating -- 7. Mrs. Dalloway : repetition as the raising of the dead -- 8. Between the acts : repetition as extrapolation. Subjects; Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928. Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863. Brontë, Emily 1818-1848. Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 History and criticism. Brontë, Emily 1818-1848. English fiction History and criticism. Repetition (Rhetoric). Fiction Technique. Repetition in literature. English fiction. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 330 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The creation of the self in Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Orion" in "The wreck of the Deutschland" -- What the lonely child saw: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist -- The theme of the disappearance of God in Victorian poetry -- Money in Our mutual friend -- Some implications of form in Victorian fiction -- Three problems of fictional form: first-person narration in David Copperfield and Huckleberry Finn -- The sources of Dickens' comic art: from American notes to Martin Chuzzlewit -- The fiction of realism: Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, and Cruikshank's illustrations -- Interpretation in Dickens' Bleak house -- Nature and the linguistic moment -- Béguin, Balzac, Trollope and the double double analogy -- Middlemarch, chapter 85 -- The ethics of reading: vast gaps and parting hours -- The truth will out: Anthony Trollope's Cousin Henry -- The values of obduracy in Trollope's Lady Anna -- Trollope's Thackeray -- Theology and logology in Victorian literature -- The two rhetorics: George Eliot's bestiary -- "Hieroglyphical truth" in Sartor resartus: Carlyle and the language of parable. Subjects; English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Victorian Period. Victorian Literature. History. 19th Century. 1 Kg.