Reading for Our Time: 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited
J. Hillis Miller
A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels 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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Année:
2012
Editeur::
Edinburgh University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
216
ISBN 10:
0748647287
ISBN 13:
9780748647286
Fichier:
PDF, 945 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2012