02543nam 2200529Ia 450 991079024450332120210309190729.00-7486-4670-110.1515/9780748646708(CKB)2670000000203775(EBL)932460(OCoLC)795695186(SSID)ssj0000658278(PQKBManifestationID)11430287(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658278(PQKBWorkID)10680827(PQKB)10133362(MiAaPQ)EBC932460(DE-B1597)614467(DE-B1597)9780748646708(OCoLC)1302162364(EXLCZ)99267000000020377520111125d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading for our time[electronic resource] 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' revisited /by J. Hillis MillerEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20121 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-98024-1 0-7486-4669-8 COVER; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Required Reading or "Some of Us, at Least"; Prelude; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Realism Affirmed and Dismantled in Adam Bede; Chapter 2 Reading Middlemarch Right for Today; Chapter 3 Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede: Truth-Telling Narration; Chapter 4 Returning to Middlemarch Returning to Middlemarch: Interpretation as Naming and (Mis)Reading; Coda; Notes; IndexA 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 meltdown and ineffective politicians? 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. By relating mistakes like Dorothea's about Casaubon to current affairs, Miller's 'readings for today' can help us to come to terms with our human, social and political situation and even inBiography in literatureBiography in literature.823.8Miller J. Hillis(Joseph Hillis),1928-2021.884817MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790244503321Reading for our time3794528UNINA