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...
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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 historical encounter between French philosophy and American reading practices. Intro -- 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 Line -- Chapter 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.
"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
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""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 Line""; ""Chapter 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""
