"Theory now and then" brings together the more overtly theoretical essays by J.Hillis Miller published between 1966 and 1989. Included here are review essays on other theorists' work - George Poulet and the rest of the "Geneva critics": Joseph Riddel, Edward Said, Meyer Abrams; Jacques Derrida and the other critics of the "Yale School" with whom Miller was associated: Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom. Among the essays are also affirmations made over the years of Miller's own theoretical presuppositions. But in Miller's view, theory is nothing without praxis. Exemplary readings punctuate these essays, not only the readings of the theorists themselves, where the presupposition is that works of theory must be read as carefully and scrupulously as literary works, but also readings of texts by Milton, Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, George Eliot, Nietzsche, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.
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Pearson Education Limited
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 155 mm
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978-0-7450-0837-0 (9780745008370)
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The antitheses of criticism - reflections on the Yale colloquium; the Geneva school - the criticism of Marcel Raymond, Albert Beguin, Georges Poulet, Jean Rousset, Jean-Pierrre Richard, and Jean Starobinski; Geneva or Paris? - Georges Poulet's "Criticism of Identification"; literature and religion; tradition and difference; deconstructing the deconstructors; the year's books - literary criticism; Steven's rock and criticism as cure; beginning with a text; the critic as host; on edge - the crossways of contemporary criticism; the function of rhetorical study at the present time; English Romanticism, American Romanticism - what's the difference?; composition and decomposition - deconstruction and the teaching of writing; constructions in criticism; the search for grounds in literary study; "Gleichnis" in Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra"; how deconstruction works; President's column - responsibility and the joy of reading, responsibility and the joy (?) of teaching, the obligation to write, the future for the study of languages and literatures; the imperative to teach.
