Background
Miller, Joseph Hillis was born on March 5, 1928 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of Joseph Hillis and Nell (Critzer) Miller.
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"A change in literature as dramatic as the appearance of romanticism in the eighteenth century has been taking place during the last fifty years. This book tries to explore the change through the study of six writers who have participated in it."
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Manley Hopkins, De Quincy, Browning, Bronte, Arnold Miller, J. Hillis. The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers. Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. 24cm x 16.2cm. 367 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The dustjacket with small tears. Includes for Example: Application of a new mode of analysis to five Victorian writers - Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Emily Bronte and Gerard Manley Hopkins/ Showing each novel in a new light/ All are shown to represent different reactions to similar situations, and are seen to be related by this common background/ Avoiding a chronological survey, or a series of explications of individual poems, Mr. Miller devotes a chapter to each writer/ Taking all of his works as a single unit/ Describing the inner structure and organizing principles of that unit/ Showing what makes it an organic whole/ Suggestion that all five found their starting place in an experience of the absence of God/ Heirs of the romantic tradition, unlike the earlier romantic poets these writers did not begin with a sense of a hidden spiritual force in nature/ God for them was altogether beyond the world/ Each attempted in his work to bring God back to earth as a benign force inherent in nature and in the human community. J. Hillis Miller is the author of Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels/ Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University.
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Tropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Miller’s essays on seven major twentieth-century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy, and Conrad. For all their evident differences, these essays from early to late explore a single intuition about literature, which may be framed by three words: “trope,” “parable,” and “performative.” Throughout these essays Miller is fascinated with the tropological dimension of literary language, with the way figures of speech turn aside the telling of a story or the presentation of a literary theme. The exploration of this turning leads to the recognition that all works of literature are parabolic, “thrown beside” their real meaning. They tell one story but call forth something else. Miller further agrees that all parables are fundamentally performative. They do not merely name something or give knowledge, but rather use words to make something happen, to get the reader from here to there. Each essay here attempts to formulate what, in a given case, the reader perfomatively enters by way of parabolic trope.
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The author shows, through a close reading of Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil", how a text can offer unsolicited answers and reveal its linguistic ruses to close scrutiny and how such a reading can bear on contemporary debates about canon formation, the university curriculum and the place of literary studies in the late 20th century. The book includes an interview with the author, an increasingly prominent figure in American critical theory.
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"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are."―from The Burdens of Perfection Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods. Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers.
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( Theory Now and Then contains the more overtly theoretic...)
Theory Now and Then contains the more overtly theoretical essays by J. Hillis Miller published between 1966 and 1989. These essays trace the trajectory of theory over the last thirty years in the United States: from the “Continental Shift” announced in the Yale Colloquium of 1965, through Miller’s assimilation of the work of the Geneva Critics, to the shift to that “deconstruction in America” in which Miller played a conspicuous role. Included here are review essays on other theorists’ work: the Geneva Circle including Georges Poulet; Joseph Riddel, Edward Said, Meyer Abrams; and the critics of the “Yale School,” such as Jacques Derrida and others, Paul De Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and Harold Bloom, with whom Miller was associated. Exemplary readings of the theorists themselves, and of texts by Milton, Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, George Eliot, Nietzsche, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams punctuate these essays.
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( Written over a thirty-five year period, these essays re...)
Written over a thirty-five year period, these essays reflect the changes in J. Hillis Miller’s thinking on Victorian topics, from an early concern with questions of consciousness, form, and intellectual history, to a more recent focus on parable and the development of a deconstructive ethics of reading. Miller defines the term “Victorian subjects” in more than one sense. The phrase identifies an historical time but also names a concern throughout with subjectivity, consciousness, and selfhood in Victorian literature. The essays show various Victorian subjectivities seeking to ground themselves in their own underlying substance or in some self beneath or beyond the self. But “Victorian subjects” also discusses those who were subject to Queen Victoria, to the reigning ideologies of the time, to historical, social, and material conditions, including the conditions under which literature was written, published, distributed, and consumed. These essays, taken together, sketch the outlines of ideological assumptions within the period about the self, interpersonal relations, nature, literary form, the social function of literature, and other Victorian subjects.
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(Discusses the ethics of writing and reading fiction, the ...)
Discusses the ethics of writing and reading fiction, the creation and action of characters, and works by Henry James, Melville, Heinrich von Kleist, and Maurice Blanchot.
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( This series of readings, explores the functioning of mo...)
This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, "The Disappearance of God" confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. J. Hillis Miller surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God - among other factors the city, developments within Christianity, subjectivism, and the emergence of the modern historical sense - and shows how each writer's body of work reflects a sustained response to the experience of God's disappearance.
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comparative literature educator
Miller, Joseph Hillis was born on March 5, 1928 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of Joseph Hillis and Nell (Critzer) Miller.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1948. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952.
Master of Arts, Yale University, 1972. Degree (honorary), University Florida. Degree (honorary), Bucknell University.
Degree (honorary), University Zaragoza.
Instructor English, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1952-1953;
assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1953-1959;
associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1959-1963;
Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1963-1968;
department chairman English, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1964-1968;
Professor of English and humanistic studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1968-1972;
Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, 1972-1975;
Gray professor rhetoric, Yale University, New Haven, 1975-1976;
department chairman English, Yale University, New Haven, 1976-1979;
Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, 1976-1986;
professor comparative literature, Yale University, New Haven, 1979-1986;
director literature major, Yale University, New Haven, 1980-1983;
Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, since 1986. Visiting professor U. Hawaii, 1956, Harvard University, 1962, 72, Swarthmore College, 1967, University of Virginia, 1968, U. Washington, 1971, U. Zurich, 1972, University of California School Criticism, Irvine, 1979, Dartmouth School Criticism and Theory, 1986, 92,Tulane University, 1987. Danforth Seminar lecturer University of Chicago, 1959.
Ward-Phillips lecturer U. Notre Dame, 1967. Fellow Wesleyan Center for Humanities, 1971. Visiting professor, fellow Council of Humanities, Princeton University, 1974.
Dir.Nat. Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminars, 1974, 77, 80.
(The author shows, through a close reading of Hawthorne's ...)
(A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the forem...)
(Discusses the ethics of writing and reading fiction, the ...)
("A change in literature as dramatic as the appearance of ...)
(A review of Dickens' works stressing the transformation o...)
( This series of readings, explores the functioning of mo...)
( This series of readings, explores the functioning of mo...)
(William Carlos Williams; a collection of critical essays,...)
( "In some moods, or for some people, the desire to impro...)
( Written over a thirty-five year period, these essays re...)
(Fiction & Repetition - Seven English Novels (Paper): Seve...)
( Theory Now and Then contains the more overtly theoretic...)
(Manley Hopkins, De Quincy, Browning, Bronte, Arnold Mille...)
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( Tropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Mill...)
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Trustee Keuka College, 1971-1980. Fellow Society Values in Higher Education, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Modern Language Association (research committee 1968-1969, executive council 1970-1973, PMLA 1975-1977, Second vice president 1984, 1st vice president 1985, president 1986), College English Association (director 1977-1980), English Institute (supervisor committee 1968-1970, chairman 1970), New England College English Association (president 1975-1976), Phi Beta Kappa (lecturer 1977-1978).
Married Dorothy Marian James, April 2, 1949. Children: Robin Leigh, Matthew Hopkins, Sarah Elizabeth.