LEADER 02543nam 2200529Ia 450 001 9910790244503321 005 20210309190729.0 010 $a0-7486-4670-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748646708 035 $a(CKB)2670000000203775 035 $a(EBL)932460 035 $a(OCoLC)795695186 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000658278 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430287 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658278 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680827 035 $a(PQKB)10133362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC932460 035 $a(DE-B1597)614467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748646708 035 $a(OCoLC)1302162364 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000203775 100 $a20111125d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading for our time$b[electronic resource] $e'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' revisited /$fby J. Hillis Miller 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-98024-1 311 $a0-7486-4669-8 327 $aCOVER; 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; Index 330 $aA 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 in 606 $aBiography in literature 615 0$aBiography in literature. 676 $a823.8 700 $aMiller$b J. Hillis$g(Joseph Hillis),$f1928-2021.$0884817 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790244503321 996 $aReading for our time$93794528 997 $aUNINA