Reading for Our Time
Download or Read eBook Reading for Our Time PDF written by J. Hillis Miller and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : J. Hillis Miller |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2012-03-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780748646708 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0748646701 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Reading for Our Time by : J. Hillis Miller
Book excerpt: 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.
