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Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (Hardcover)
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Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on
facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text
on the right, Asensi's on the left. It makes a long trajectory,
moving back and forth as an ox plows a field, boustrophedonically,
to borrow the figure in Manuel Asensi's title.
"Black Holes," by J. Hillis Miller, analyzes changes in the
contemporary research university in the West. The mission of the
research university has been profoundly influenced by the end of
the Cold War and by globalization, advances in communication
technologies, and shifts in funding from the federal government to
transnational corporations. Miller aims to discover what the
function of the humanities might be in this new kind of university.
Echoing Bill Readings, he calls for a university of "dissensus"
that would be made up of adjacent or overlapping communities, each
fundamentally other to the others, each inhabited by its own
otherness. Each of those opacities is a kind of black hole in the
luminosity or enlightenment to which the university has
traditionally been dedicated. Miller concludes with sections on
Trollope and Proust that attempt to show how otherness is
exemplified in the work of two fundamentally dissimilar authors.
Manuel Asensi's "J. Hillis Miller: or, Boustrophedonic Reading" is
the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work, one that
foregrounds its difference not only from the work of his
associates--such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, and Georges
Poulet--but from European literary methodologies such as semiotics,
Slavic formalism, Glosematics, narratology, structuralism, and
reception theory. Bypassing or challenging conventional accounts of
Miller's work, Asensi brings a fresh view to his readings of
Miller's criticism. He finds there a complex and partially
contradictory "matrix" that persists, throughout the apparent
methodological changes, from Miller's earliest work to the most
recent. According to Asensi, that matrix organizes itself around a
fascination with the strangeness or otherness of literary works.
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