Provocations to Reading : : J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come / / ed. by Dragan Kujundzic, Barbara Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Castillo, Larisa Tokmakoff,; Cohen, Barbara L.,; Cohen, Tom,; Derrida, Jacques,; Gelley, Alexander,; Kamuf, Peggy,; Kujundžić, Dragan,; MacCannell, Juliet Flower,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Odom, Glenn,; Pease, Donald,; Redfield, Marc,; Shen, Dan,; Sussman, Henry,; Williams, Jennifer H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Barbara,; Kujundzic, Dragan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

This book is a marker of the “state of theory” today. Its rich array of wideranging essays explores the dimensions and implications of the work of J. Hillis Miller, one of the most eminent literary scholars in America. For nearly half a century, Miller has been known for his close and imaginative engagement with the implications of European philosophical thought and for his passionate advocacy of close reading. Building on this intellectual legacy, the contributors instantiate and extend the practice and ethics of sustained close reading that is Miller’s hallmark. The book culminates in a moving piece by Jacques Derrida, Miller’s close friend of forty years, who engages Miller’s readings of Gerard Manley Hopkins in a historic encounter between French philosophy and American reading practices. A provocation to reading for new generations of students and teachers, these essays offer important resources for grasping the question of language in historical perspective and in contemporary life—a task essential for any democratic future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One. The ethics of reading -- 1. ‘‘J’’ Is for Jouissance -- 2. Broadening the Horizon: On J. Hillis Miller’s Ananarratology -- 3. Finding the Zumbah: An Analysis of Infelicity in Speech Acts in Literature -- 4. Between ‘‘the Cup and the Lip’’: Retroactive Constructions of Inheritance in Our Mutual Friend -- 5. Hillis’s Charity -- Part Two. The politics of form -- 6. ‘‘J’’; or, Hillis le mal -- 7. The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller -- 8. On the Line -- 9. War on Terror -- 10. American Literary Studies and American Cultural Studies in the Times of the National Emergency: J’s Paradoxes -- Part Three. Justices -- 11. ‘‘J’’ Is for Just a Minute: It’s Miller Time When It Shimmers -- 12. Three Literary Theorists in Search of 0 -- 13. Justices -- Notes -- Index