Research Catalog

Title

Provocations to reading : J. Hillis Miller and the democracy to come / edited by Barbara Cohen and Dragan Kujundžić.

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Barbara L., 1945-
• Kujundzic, Dragan, 1959-
• University of California, Irvine.

Description

xxi, 313 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Miller, J. Hillis 1928-2021
• American literature > Theory, etc
• English literature > Theory, etc
• Criticism > United States > History > 20th century

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-309) and index.

Contents

Preface / Barbara Cohen -- Introduction / Dragan Kujundzic -- 1. "J" is for Jouissance / Juliet Flower MacCannell -- 2. Broadening the horizon : on J. Hillis Miller's ananarratology / Dan Shen -- 3. Finding the Zumbah : an analysis of infelicity in Speech acts in literature / Glenn Odom -- 4. Between "the cup and the lip" : retroactive constructions of inheritance in Our mutual friend / Larisa Tokmakoff Castillo -- 5. Hillis's charity / Jennifer H. Williams -- 6. "J"; or, Hillis le mal / Tom Cohen -- 7. The afterlife of Judaism : the Zohar, Benjamin, Miller / Henry Sussman -- 8. On the line / Alexander Gelley -- 9. War on terror / Marc Redfield -- 10. American literary studies and American cultural studies in the times of the national emergency : J's paradoxes / Donald Pease -- 11. "J" is for just a minute : it's miller time when it shimmers / Peggy Kamuf -- 12. Three literary theorists in search of o / J. Hillis Miller -- 13. Justices / Jacques Derrida.

ISBN

• 0823224317 (hardcover)
• 0823224325 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005018153
• R8-544703

OCLC

• OCM60791572
• SCSB-5218836

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries