Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited - Couverture souple

Miller, J. Hillis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748647287 ISBN 13 : 9780748647286

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

A 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 inspire us to act to ameliorate it. Key Features: - The product of many years of reading, teaching and writing by this world-renowned critic- Supported by the abundant previous scholarship on these texts

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at Irvine. He has published many books and essays on 19th and 20th-century literature and on literary theory. His most recent books are Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin with Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook, and For Derrida. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748647287
• ISBN 13: 9780748647286
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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