J. Hillis Miller (1928-2021) was UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Among his many books are For Derrida and Literature as Conduct (both Fordham). Miller was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He received the Modern Language Association Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award in 2005 and in 1986 was President of the MLA.
17 Ebooks by J. Hillis Miller
J. Hillis Miller: For Derrida
This book—the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida’s writings and seminars—is “for Derrida” in …
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€44.99
J. Hillis Miller: 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 (contradictorily) by Raymond W …
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€32.99
Ashley Marshall: 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 prolific career he h …
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€150.92
Brian R. Pellar: Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory
This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albi …
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€106.99
J. Hillis Miller: Reading for Our Time
A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot’s novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial mel …
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€32.10
J. Hillis Miller: Reading for Our Time
A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot’s novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial mel …
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€31.76
Tom Cohen & Claire Colebrook: Theory and the Disappearing Future
Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript a …
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€48.44
Tom Cohen & Claire Colebrook: Theory and the Disappearing Future
Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript a …
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€48.27
J. Hillis Miller: Conflagration of Community
"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric." The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguin …
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€48.97
Gary A. Olson: Justifying Belief
While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works—and perhaps his most important—are his nonliterary writings. In Justi …
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€30.99
J. Hillis Miller: 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 (contradictorily) by Raymond W …
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€33.37
Carola Kaplan & Peter Mallios: Conrad in the Twenty-First Century
Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. Conrad’s work has taken on a new importance in the dawning …
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€48.79
Carola Kaplan & Peter Mallios: Conrad in the Twenty-First Century
Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. Conrad’s work has taken on a new importance in the dawning …
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€48.27
J. Hillis Miller: On Literature
Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why sh …
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€29.46
J. Hillis Miller: On Literature
Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why sh …
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€29.48
J. Hillis Miller: Tropes, Parables, and Performatives
Tropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Miller’s essays on seven major twentieth-century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy, and Conrad. For all their evident differ …
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€102.85
