Texts by J. Hillis Miller, 1986

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

"Catachresis, Prosopopoeia, and the Pathetic Fallacy: The Rhetoric of Ruskin." In Roland Hagenbuchle and Laura Skandera, eds., Poetry and Epistemology: Turning Points in the History of Poetic Knowledge, pp. 398-407. Regensburg: F. Pustet, 1986.
"The Critic as Host." In Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, eds., Critical Theory Since 1965, pp. 452-468. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1986.
See "The Critic as Host" (1977)

"An Explanation and an Example of a Deconstructionist Reading." Orange County Register (February 22, 1986):A20.
See "How Deconstruction Works" (1986).

"Existe una etica de la lectura?" In Lisa Block de Behar, ed., Diseminario, pp. 197-226. Montevideo, Uruguay: XYZ Editores, 1987.

Translation into Spanish by Raquel Garcia de Sanjurjo of "Is There an Ethics of Reading?" (1986)

"The Future for the Study of Languages and Literatures." MLA Newsletter (Winter 1986), 18(4):3-4.

"George Eliot." In Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Volume 13, pp. 340-342. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1986.
Excerpt from "Narrative and History" (1974).

"Hopkins: The Linguistic Moment." In Harold Bloom, ed., Gerard Manley Hopkins, pp. 147-162. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
See "Chapter Five. Hopkins" in The Linguistic Moment (1985), pp. 229-266.

"How Deconstruction Works." New York Times Magazine (February 9, 1986):25.

"Impossible Metaphor: Stevens's `The Red Fern' as Example." In J. Hillis Miller, Peter Brooks and Shoshana Felman, eds., The Lessons of Paul de Man, pp. 150-162. London: Hale, 1986.
See "Impossible Metaphor: Stevens's `The Red Fern' as Example" (1985).

"In Memoriam." In J. Hillis Miller, Peter Brooks and Shoshana Felman, eds., The Lessons of Paul de Man, pp. 3-4. London: Hale, 1986.
See "In Memoriam" (1985).

"Is There an Ethics of Reading?" English Literary Society [Tokyo] (1986):2-25.
A lecture delivered at the 58th general meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan.

"J. Hillis Miller." In Robert Moynihan's A Recent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, pp. 97-131. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1986.
For part of the interview see "Interview with J. Hillis Miller, Yale, Fall 1979" (1982).

"Krytyk jako zywiciel i pasozyt." Pamietnik Literacki (1986), 77(2):285-295.
Polish translation by Grazyna Borkowska of "The Critic as Host" (1977).

"On Edge: The Crossways of Contemporary Criticism.' With `Postscript 1984'. With `Questions and Answers'." In Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer, eds., Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism, pp. 96-126. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1986.
See "On Edge: The Crossways of Contemporary Criticism" (1979).

"[Point of View]." In Robert C. Schweik, ed., Thomas Hardy. Far from the Maddening Crowd: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism, pp. 393-400. A Norton Critical edition. New York & London: Norton, 1986.
See Thomas Hardy (1970), pp. 57-70.

"President's Column: The Future for the Study of Languages and Literatures." MLA Newletter (Winter 1986):3-4.

"President's Column: Responsibility and the Joy of Reading." MLA Newsletter (Spring 1986), 18(1):2.

"President's Column: Responsibility and the Joy of Teaching." MLA Newsletter (Summer 1986), 18(2):2.

"President's Column: The Obligation to Write." MLA Newsletter (Fall 1986), 18(3):4-5.

"Troilus and Cressida." In Shakespearean Criticism, Volume 3, pp. 635-638. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1986.
Excerpt from "Ariachne's Broken Woof" (1977).

"When Is a Primitive like an Orb?" In Mary Ann Caws, ed., Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, pp. 167-181. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1986.

"William Shakespeare: Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida." In Harold Bloom, ed., The Critical Perspective, Volume 2: Spenser and Shakespeare, pp. 1081-1086. Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
See "Ariachne's Broken Woof." (1977).

"Yeats: The Linguistic Moment." In Harold Bloom, ed., William Butler Yeats, pp. 189-210. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
See "Chapter Seven. Yeats" in The Linguistic Moment (1985), pp. 316-348.