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 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 to the recognition that all works of literature are par…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8223-1111-9
- EAN: 9780822311119
- Produktnummer: 2871256
- Verlag: Duke Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.3 cm 535 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 535
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