
Medium is the Maker
Browning, Freud, Derrida and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies
J. Hillis Miller(Author)
Liverpool University Press
Published on 3. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
93 pages
978-1-84519-319-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book sets out to provide a new understanding of the nexus between the literary world and contemporary communication (iPhone et al.) in all its facets -- not Marshall McLuhan's "The medium is the message", but a new formula: "The medium is the maker". In this exploration of the medium -- traditional, modern, post-modern -- Miller engages with Browning, Freud, and Derrida to provide a platform of personal discovery and literary enlightenment (at times solemn, ironic, comic, and occasionally devastating).
Reviews / Votes
"For decades J Hillis Miller has been one of the best, most influential, and most prolific literary critics writing in English. Always on the cutting edge of his discipline, Miller has in many of his published works defined the location of that edge for his fellow scholars. In his new book The Medium is the Maker -- Browning, Freud, and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies, Miller once again takes literary criticism in a fresh and unexpected direction, thinking about the way the most recent communication technologies alter notions of the self, of public and private space, of communication as thought transference, to name only a few of the many issues Miller touches on in this penetrating study. Reading Miller's criticism is always an intellectually rewarding and exhilarating experience, as any reader of The Medium is the Maker will attest." -- John T Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84519-319-5 (9781845193195)
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Person
J Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of many books and articles on literature and literary theory.