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Speech Acts in Literature
This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act …
Topographies
This book investigates the function of topographical names and descriptions in a variety of narratives, poems, and philosophical or theoretical texts, primarily from the 19th and …
(In)fusion Approach
Opposing all claims that theory has come to an end, this book presents a fresh perspective on our reading, understanding, and application of theory and its affect on our …
Ariadne's Thread
"What line should the critic follow in explicating, unfolding, or unknotting . . . passages? How should the critic thread her or his way into the labyrinthine problems of narrative …
Material Events
Renowned contributors use the late work of this crucial figure to open new speculations on "materiality." A "material event," in one of Paul de Man’s definitions, is a piece of …
Communities in Fiction
Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out …
Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading
This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem—Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. It makes a long …
Literature as Conduct
The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by …
Communities in Fiction
Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out …
The Caribbean at Mid-Century: School of Inter-American Studies, Series 1, V1
Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics
The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson’s interests and the versatility of his critical powers. In his …
Reading Conrad
For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less …