Communities in Fiction by J Hillis Miller

Communities in Fiction by J Hillis Miller

Communities in Fiction reads in detail six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Nancy for communities or non-communities in the real world.

JHillis Miller's Communities in Fiction is a magnificent repondering of the Victorian novel's ability to render consciousness of self and other. Lucid and urbane, the book is a model of theoretical investigation that would be perfectly accessible to a nonspecialist reader. -SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 What brings Communities in Fiction its true distinction is the facility and creativity with which Miller retrofits each of the major artifacts in his purview to his communal 'reality testing.' Communities in Fiction is a work utterly remarkable for its mastery, its erudition, its theoretical creativity, and its good sense. This wonderful volume is truly delightful. -- -Henry Sussman Yale University Like Trollope, one of his subjects here, Hillis Miller has long perfected a style of warmly conversational lucidity. He communicates his pleasures and his perplexities as he guides you through readings that are at once leisurely and compelling. -- -Rachel Bowlby Princeton University

J. Hillis Miller (1928-2021) was UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Among his many books are For Derrida and Literature as Conduct (both Fordham). Miller was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He received the Modern Language Association Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award in 2005 and in 1986 was President of the MLA.

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ISBN 13	9780823263103
ISBN 10	082326310X
Title	Communities in Fiction
Author	J Hillis Miller
Series	Commonalities
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Year published	2014-12-02
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Commended for Choice: Outstanding Academic Title 2016
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