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Tropes, Parables, and Performatives /

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...

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Autor principal: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a D.H. Lawrence: The Fox and the perspective glass -- Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation -- Wallace Stevens' poetry of being -- Williams' poetry of resignation -- Thomas Hardy: a sketch for a portrait Williams' Spring and All and the progress of poetry -- History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex Heights" -- Parable and performative in the Gospels and in modern literature -- Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The rhythm of creativity in To the Lighthouse -- Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls" -- Heart of Darkness revisited -- Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's "In Front of the Landscape" -- Impossible metaphor: (Stevens' "The Red Fern" asexample) -- When is a Primitive like an Orb? -- Prosopopoeinia Hardy and Stevens. 
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