Title Others / J. Hillis Miller

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) Contents 1. Friedrich Schlegel: Catachreses for Chaos. 2. Charles Dickens: The Other's in Our Mutual Friend. 3. George Eliot: The Roar on the Other Side of Silence. 4. Anthony Trollope: Ideology as Other in Marion Fay. 5. Joseph Conrad: Should We Read Heart of Darkness? 6. Conrad's Secret. 7. W.B. Yeats: "The Cold Heaven" 8. E.M. Forster: Just Reading Howards End. 9. Marcel Proust: Lying as a Recherche Tool. 10. Paul de Man as Allergen. 11. Jacques Derrida's Others Summary This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, E.M. Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. From the exquisite close readings for which he is celebrated, Miller reaps a capacious understanding of otherness - one reachable not through theory but through literature itself. Otherness has wide valence in contemporary literary and cultural studies and is often understood as a misconception by hegemonic groups of subaltern ones. In a counter to this, Others conceives of otherness as something that inhabits sameness. Instances of the "wholly other" within the familiar include your sense of self or your beloved, your sense of culture as such, or your experience of literary, theoretical, and philosophical works that belong to your own culture - works that are themselves haunted by otherness. Though Others begins and ends with chapters on theorists, the testimony these theorists offer about otherness is not taken as more compelling than that of such literary works as Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, Conrad's "The secret sharer," Yeats's "Cold Heaven," or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Otherness, as this book finds it in the writers read, is not an abstract concept. It is an elusive feature of specific verbal constructs, different in each case. It can be glimpsed only through close readings that respect this diversity, as the plural in the title - Others - indicates. -- from back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Criticism -- Europe -- 20th century Difference (Psychology) in literature. 17.76 history of world literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. Criticism Difference (Psychology) in literature European fiction Das Andere Literatur De ander. Fictie. European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Criticism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. Criticism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691224053 0691224056

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