Texts by J. Hillis Miller, 1990

Eddie Yeghiayan

• "Face to Face: Plato's Protagoras as a Model for Collective Research in the Humanities." In David Carroll, ed., The States of `Theory': History, Art, and Critical Discourse, pp. 281-295. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

• "Laying Down the Law in Literature: The Example of Kleist." Cardozo Law Review (July-August 1990), 11(5-6):1491-1538.

• "Naming and Doing: Speech Acts in Hopkins's Poems." Religion & Literature (Summer-Fall 1990), 22(2-3):173-191.

• "Review Essay: Translating the Untranslatable." Goethe Yearbook (1990), 5:269-278.

• Tropes, Parables, Performatives: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature. London : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
  Contents:
  

  1. D.H. Lawrence: The Fox and the Perspective Glass:1-14
  2. Franz Kafka and the Metaphysics of Alienation:15-31
  3. Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Being:33-49
  4. Williams' Poetry of Resignation:51-63
  5. Thomas Hardy: A Sketch for a Portrait:65-77
  6. Williams' Spring and All and the Progress of Poetry:79-105
  7. History as Repetition in Thomas Hardy's Poetry: The Example of "Wessex Heights":107-134
  8. Parable and Performative in the Gospels and in Modern Literature:135-150
  9. Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The Rhythm of Creativity in To the Lighthouse:151-170
  10. Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls":171-180
  11. Heart of Darkness Revisted:181-194
  12. Topography and Tropography in Thomas Hardy's "In Front of the Landscape":195-212
  13. Impossible Metaphor: (Stevens' "The Red Fern" as Example):213-226
  14. When is a Primitive Like an Orb?:227-244
  15. Prosopopoeia in Hardy and Stevens:245-259

• Versions of Pygmalion. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
  Contents:
  Proem: Pygmalion's Prosopopoeia:1-2

  1. The Ethics of Narration:13-22
  2. Reading, Doing: James's What Maisie Knew:23-81
  3. Just Reading: Kleist's "Der Findling":82-140
  4. Who Is he? Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener":141-178
  5. Death Mask: Blanchot's L'arrêt de mort:179-210
  6. Facing It: James's "The Last of the Valerii":211-243

• Victorian Subjects. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
  Contents:
  1. The Creation of the Self in Gerard Manley Hopkins:1-23
  2. "Orion" in "The Wreck of the Deutschland:25-30
  3. What the Lonely Child Saw: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist:31-48
  4. The Theme of the Disappearance of God in Victorian Poetry:49-68
  5. Money in Our Mutual Friend:69-77
  6. Some Implications of Form in Victorian Fiction:79-90
  7. Three Problems of Fictional Form in Victorian Fiction:91-107
  8. The Sources of Dickens's Comic Art: From American Notes to Martin Chuzzlewit:109-117
  9. The Fiction of Realism: Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, and Cruikshank's Illustrations:119-177
  10. Interpretation in Dickens' Bleak House:179-199
  11. Nature and the Linguistic Moment:201-212
  12. Béguin, Balzac, Trollope and the Double Double Analogy:213-228
  13. Middlemarch, Chapter 85:229-235
  14. The Ethics of Reading: Vast Gaps and Parting Hours:237-256
  15. The Truth Will Out: Anthony Trollope's Cousin Henry:257-262
  16. The Values of Obduracy in Trollope's Lady Anna:263-269
  17. Trollope's Thackeray:271-277
  18. Theology and Logology in Victorian Literature:279-288
  19. The Two Rhetorics: George Eliot's Bestiary:289-302
  20. "Hieroglyphical Truth" in Sartor Resartus: Carlyle and the Language of Parable:301-319
  

• "Wuthering Heights." Shanghai Literary Theory (1990):73-80.

  Chinese translation by Wang Hong-to of part of the chapter "Wuthering Heights" from Fiction and Repetition: Some English Novels (1982).