Chargement en cours…
Tropes, parables, performatives : essays on twentieth-century literature /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Auteur principal: | |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
| Publié: |
Durham :
Duke University Press,
1991.
|
| Collection: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
|
| Sujets: | |
| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 |
|---|---|
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822390688 082239068X 1282923706 9781282923706 9786612923708 6612923709 |