Books written by J. Hillis Miller

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  Thinking Literature across Continents

  Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters.

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  For Derrida

  The chief goal has been, to borrow a phrase from Wallace Stevens, “plainly to propound” what Derrida says. The book aims, above all, to render Derrida’s writings justice.

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  Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels

  While repetition creates meanings, it also, Miller argues, prevents the identification of a single determinable meaning for any of the novels; rather, the patterns made by the various repetitive sequences offer alternative possibilities of ...

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  Reading for Our Time

  A masterclass in attentive reading offering brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels

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  Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels

  While repetition creates meanings, it also, Miller argues, prevents the identification of a single determinable meaning for any of the novels; rather, the patterns made by the various repetitive sequences offer alternative possibilities of ...

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  Tropes, Parables, and Performatives

  For all their evident differences, these essays from early to late explore a single intuition about literature, which may be framed by three words: “trope,” “parable,” and “performative.” Throughout these essays Miller is ...

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  Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines

  Using the image of Ariadne's thread, which was given to Theseus to carry into the labyrinth so that he could find his way out, J. Hillis Miller traces out the "line" so often associated with narrative and writing in general.

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  Reading for Our Time: 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited

  J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech.

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  An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China

  Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory.

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  Black Holes

  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.

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  Communities in Fiction

  As against the presumption that the trajectory in literature from Victorian to modern to postmodern is the story of a gradual loss of belief in the possibility of community, this book demonstrates that communities have always been presented ...

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  The Ethics of Reading: Kant, De Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin

  Argues that the act of reading is an independently ethical act through an analysis of a number of passages from Kant and de Man in order to sketch out the ground of the topic and then of texts in which George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and ...

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  The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz

  Juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust with Kafka's novels and Morrison's 'Beloved', asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony.

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  The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin

  The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin