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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1991.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822390688 |