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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452488803321

Titolo

Provocations to reading [[electronic resource] ] : discourses for a democracy to come / / edited by Barbara L. Cohen and Dragan Kujundzic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8232-7509-4

0-8232-2433-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenBarbara L. <1945->

KujundzicDragan <1959->

Disciplina

810.9

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The essays in this collection grow out of a conference titled "'J': Around the work of J. Hillis Miller," held at the University of California, Irvine, on April 18 and 19 of 2003"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Provocations to Reading; Contents; About the Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Ethics of Reading; Chapter 1: ''J'' Is for Jouissance; Chapter 2:  Broadening the Horizon: On J. Hillis Miller's Ananarratology; Chapter 3: Finding the Zumbah: An Analysis of Infelicity in Speech Acts in Literature; Chapter 4: Between ''the Cup and the Lip'': Retroactive Constructions of Inheritance in Our Mutual Friend; Chapter 5: Hillis's Charity; Part II: The Politics of Form; Chapter 6: ''J'';  or, Hillis le mal; Chapter 7: The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller

Chapter 8: On the LineChapter 9: War on Terror; Chapter 10: American Literary Studies and American Cultural Studies in the Times of the National Emergency: J's Paradoxes; Part III: Justices; Chapter 11: ''J'' Is for Just a Minute: It's Miller Time When It Shimmers; Chapter 12: Three Literary Theorists in Search of 0; Chapter 13: Justices; Notes; Index