Reading for our time [electronic resource] : 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' revisited / by J. Hillis Miller.
2012
PR4656 .M55 2012eb
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Reading for our time [electronic resource] : 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' revisited / by J. Hillis Miller.
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9780748646708 (electronic bk.)
9780748646692
0748646698
9780748647286
0748647287
9780748646692
0748646698
9780748647286
0748647287
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (xviii, 191 p.) : ill.
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PR4656 .M55 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.8
Summary
Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech. By relating mistakes like Dorothea's about Casaubon to current affairs, Miller's 'readings for today' can help us to come to terms with our human, social and political situation and even inspire us to act to ameliorate it.
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Table of Contents
Foreword : required reading or "some of us, at least" / Julian Wolfreys
Realism affirmed and dismantled in Adam Bede
Reading Middlemarch right for today
Chapter seventeen of Adam Bede : truth-telling narration
Returning to Middlemarch : interpretation as naming and (mis)reading.
Realism affirmed and dismantled in Adam Bede
Reading Middlemarch right for today
Chapter seventeen of Adam Bede : truth-telling narration
Returning to Middlemarch : interpretation as naming and (mis)reading.