Reading Theory Now: An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller

ISBN-13: 9781441115140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str.

Eamonn Dunne

Opis

Reading Theory Now explores movements in critical thinking through a host of radical theorists, and to channel those movements through the work of one of the most influential proponents of critical interpretation in the world today, J. Hillis Miller. It enables its readers to see how and why theoretical models of reading are of use only in the practical event of reading literary and philosophical texts, that the politics and poetics of interpretive paradigms are constantly shifting, changing and evolving as present day perspectives transform those traditions unalterably. it seeks to invite its readers to challenge the concept of the paradigm, the school, the movement, even the sequence, by presenting them with a choice to read in their own way, to "dip" in and out of singular events of interpretation from A to Z. In this respect Reading Theory Now invites its audience to decide for him/herself where they begin and end their own critical analyses. Reading Theory Now also contains: *A Preface by J. Hillis Miller which comments on the significance of reading as an event and the centrality of political and ecological issues in his most recent work.
*An Afterword by Julian Wolfreys which tackles these issues in Miller's latest books.
*A select annotated bibliography which will help students coming to Miller's work for the first time to find their own way into his vast critical corpus.

Recenzje

It would not be unfair to say that Eamonn Dunne knows Hillis Miller better than the eminent critic and literary theorist knows himself. This is another invaluable addition to the secondary literature on Miller. With it Dunne reminds us of the essential nature of Miller's writing for the study of literature today. Reading Reading Theory Now I am persuaded by Dunne that Miller remains our most vital and remarkable thinker of literature; without a familiarity with Miller any training in reading literature would be incomplete. Perhaps, it is where that training should begin. Dunne has rendered us all a great service once more. Martin McQuillan, Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK

Spis treści

Foreword: "Exergue: Miller from A to Z, Or: Miller on Dunne on Miller" by J. Hillis Miller Introduction: "Excursus, Excursus"A (Anacoluthon)B (Beginnings)C (Character)D (Decision)E (Exegesis)F (Figure)G (Graph)H (Hypertext)I (Intersubjectivity)J (Joy)K (Kiss)L (Line)M (Middle)N (Nachträglickeit)O (Others)P (Promise)Q (queer)R (Responsibility)S (Surd)T (Topography)U (Uncanny)V (Virtuality)W (Writing)X (X)Y (Yarn)Z (Zero)Afterword: "ABCing you: Raising the Stakes of/for Reading or, Miller's Tale"by Julian Wolfreys Annotated BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Dr Éamonn Dunne is a teacher of English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. He is the author of J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: Literature after Deconstruction (2010) and has research interests in pedagogy, popular culture, queer theory and narratology. He is currently co-writing a third book on queer theory and literature with Michael O'Rourke.