Parables, Tropes, Performatives: Essay on Twentieth Century Literature by Hillis Miller epub fb2 djvu
Author: | Hillis Miller |
Title: | Parables, Tropes, Performatives: Essay on Twentieth Century Literature |
ISBN: | 0745008364 |
ISBN13: | 978-0745008363 |
Other Formats: | mbr lit docx rtf |
Pages: | 256 pages |
Publisher: | Prentice-Hall (October 1, 1990) |
Language: | English |
Size EPUB version: | 1444 kb |
Size FB2 version: | 1911 kb |
Category: | Literature & Fiction |
Subcategory: | History & Criticism |
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This book brings together essays by J. Hillis Miller on eight major 20th-century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy Conrad, and James. For all their evident differences, these essays, from early to late, explore a single intuition about literature. The formulation of this emerges with increasing clarity. The intuition may be framed by three words: "trope", "parable", "performative". Each essay here attempts to formulate what it is in a given case that the reader performatively enters by the way of parabolic trope.