J. Hillis Miller

Publications by J. Hillis Miller

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

• Edited (with Roy Harvey Pearce). The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965.

• "The Aims and Uses of Literature." [sound recording] 1 sound disc: analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12in. Research Triangle, NC: National Humanities Center, 1988.

• "Anonymous Walkers." Nation (April 23, 1960), 190:351-354.

• "Antitheses of Criticism: Reflections on the Yale Colloquium." MLN (December 1966), 81:557-571.

• "Ariachne's Broken Woof." Georgia Review (Spring 1977), 31(1): 44-60. "Ariadne's Thread: Repetition and the Narrative Line." Critical Inquiry (Autumn 1976), 3(1): 57-77.

• Edited, with a foreword, pp. v- vii. Aspects of Narrative: Selected Papers from the English Institute . New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1971.

• "`Beginning with a Text.' Review of Edward Said's Beginnings ." Diacritics ( 1976), 6(3):2-7.

• "Béguin, Balzac, Trollope et la double analogie redouble." In Albert Béguin et Marcel Raymond, pp. 135-154. Paris: Corti, 1979.

• "A `Buchstbliches' Reading of The Elective Affinities ." In Rodolphe Gasché, Carole Jacobs and Henry Sussman, eds., Glyph #6: Johns Hopkins Textual Studies , pp. 1-23. Baltimore, MD & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

• "Character in the Novel: A Real Illusion." In Samuel I. Mintz, Alice Chandler and Christopher Mulvey, eds., From Smollett to James: Studies in the Novel and Other Essays Presented to Edgar Johnson , pp. 277-285. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981.

• Edited (with David Borowitz). With an Introduction by Ada B. Nisbet. Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank : Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar on May 9, 1970. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Seminar Papers. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, 1971.
  Includes Miller's essay: "The Fiction of Realism: Sketches by Boz , Oliver Twist and Cruikshank's Illustrations," pp. 1-69.

• Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pbk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Midland Books, 1969.

• "The Creation of the Self in Gerard Manley Hopkins." ELH ( 1955), 22:293-319.

• "The Critic as Host." Critical Inquiry (Spring 1977), 3:439-447.

• "La Critique de Georges Poulet." Mercure de France ( 1965), 353:652-674.

• "Deconstructing the Deconstructors." Review of Joseph N. Riddel's The Inverted Bell . Diacritics ( 1975), 5(2): 24-31.

• The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers . Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
  Pbk. New York: Schocken Books, 1963.
  Reissued with a new preface. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.

• "The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche." Monist (April 1981), 64: 247-261.

• "Dismembering and Disremembering in Nietzsche's `Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense'." Boundary 2 (Spring 1981), 9(3): 41-54.

• The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin . The Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
  Pbk. 1989.

• "The Ethics of Reading: Vast Gaps and Parting Hours." In Ira Konigsberg, ed., American Criticism in the Poststructuralist Age , pp. 19-41. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.

• Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; Oxford: Blackwell, 1982.

• "The Fiction of Realism: Sketches by Boz , Oliver Twist , and Cruikshank's Illustrations." In Ada Nisbet and Blake Nevius, eds., Dickens Centennial Essays , pp. 85-113. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

• "The Figure in the Carpet." Poetics Today ( 1980), 1(3): 107-118. The Form of Victorian Fiction: Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy. Ward-Phillips Lectures in English jLanguage and Literature, 2. Notre Dame, IN & London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
  Rpr. Cleveland, OH: Arete Press, 1979. Includes a new preface.

• "Franz Kafka and the Metaphysics of Alienation." In N. A. Scott, Jr., ed., The Tragic Vision and the Christian Faith, pp. 281-305. New York: Association Press, 1957.

• "From Narrative Theory to Joyce: From Joyce to Narrative Theory." In Bernard Benstock, ed., The Seventh of Joyce , pp. 3-4. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

• "The Function of Rhetorical Study at the Present Time." ADE Bulletin (September-November 1979), 62:10-18.

• "Geneva or Paris? The Recent Work of Georges Poulet. " University of Toronto Quarterly (April 1970), 39:212-228.

• "The Geneva School." Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 1967), 43(3):477-482.

• "The Geneva School: The Criticism of Marcel Raymond, Albert Bguin, Georges Poulet, Jean Rousset, Jean-Pierre Richard, and Jean Starobinski." Critical Quarterly (Winter 1966), 8(4):305-321.

• Edited (with Carolyn D. Scott and James F. Scitt). Gerard Manley Hopkins . St. Louis, MO: Herder, 1969.

• " Gleichnis in Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra ." International Studies in Philosophy ( 1985), 17:3-15.

• "`Heart of Darkness' Revisited." In Ross C. Murfin, ed., Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties , pp. 31-50. University: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

• "`Herself against herself': The Clarification of Clara Middleton." In Carolyn G. Heilbrun and Margaret R. Higonnet, eds., The Representation of Women in Fiction , pp. 98-123. Selected Papers from the En glish Institute, 7. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

• "History as Repetition in Thomas Hardy's Poetry: The Example of `Wessex Heights'." In Malcolm Bradbury and D. Palmer, eds., Victorian Poetry , pp. 222- 253. London: Edward Arnold, 1972.

• "Hommage à Georges Poulet." MLN (December 1982), 97(5): 1039-1041.

• "How Deconstruction Works." New York Times Magazine (February 9, 1986): 25.

• "`I'd have my Life unbe': La Ricerca dell'obblio nell'opera di Thomas Hardy." Strumenti Critici ( 1969), 3:263-285.

• "Impossible Metaphor: Stevens's `The Red Fern' as Example." Yale French Studies ( 1985), 69:150-162.

• "The Interpretation of Lord Jim ." In Morton W. Bloomfield, ed., The Interpretation of Narrative: Theory and Practice , pp. 211-228. Cambridge: Harvard Un iversity Press, 1970.

• "Interview with J. Hillis Miller." In Imre Salusinszky, ed., Criticism in Society , pp. 208-240. New York & London: Methuen, 1987.

• "Interview with J. Hillis Miller." PN Review ( 1983), 9(6): 32-34. Interview conducted by K. M. Newton.

• "Interview with J. Hillis Miller, Yale, Fall 1979." Criticism (Spring 1982), 24(2): 99-125. Interview with Robert Moynihan. Reprinted in Robert Moynihan's A Rec ent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man . Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1986.

• "Kenneth Burke." In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , Vol. 18, pp. 78-81. New York: Free Press, 1979.

• Edited (with Peter Brooks, Shoshana Felman)." The Lesson of Paul de Man" Yale French Studies , 69. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985. London: Hale, 1986.

• "Limits of Pluralism. 3. Critic as Host." Critical Inquiry ( 1977), 3(3): 439-447.

• The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens . Princeton & Guildford: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pbk. 1987.

• "The Linguistic Moment in `The Wreck of the Deutschland'." In Pete Abbs, ed., The Black Rainbow: Essays in the Present Breakdown of Culture , pp. 47-60. London: Heinemann, "Literary Criticism." New Republic (November 29, 1975), 173:30-33.

• "The Literary Criticism of Georges Poulet." MLN ( 1963), 58:471-488.

• "Literature and Religion." In James Thorpe, ed., Relations of Literary Study: Essays on Interdisciplinary Contributions , pp. 111-126. New York: Modern Language Association, 1967.

• " Middlemarch , Chapter 85: Three Commentaries." Nineteenth-Century Fiction ( 1980), 35:432-453. Three commentaries by J. Hillis Miller, Barbara Hardy and Richard Po irier.

• "Mr. Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The Rhythm of Creativity in To the Lighthouse ." In Robert Kiely and John Hildebidle, eds., Modernism Reconsidered , pp. 167-189. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

• "Myth as `Hieroglyph' in Ruskin." Studies in the Literary Imagination ( 1975), 8(2): 15-18.

• "Narrative and History." ELH (Fall 1974), 41:455-473.

• "Narrative Middles: A Preliminary Outline." Genre ( 1978), 11:375-387.

• "Nature and the Linguistic Moment." In U. C. Knoepflmacher and G. B. Tennyson, eds., Nature and the Victorian Imagination , pp. 440-451. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

• "On Edge: The Crossways of Contemporary Criticism.' With `Postscript 1984'. With `Questions and Answers'." In Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer, eds., Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism , pp. 96-126. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1986. "Optic and Semiotic in Middlemarch ." In Jerome H. Buckley, ed. The Worlds of Victorian Fiction , pp. 125-145. Cambridge: Harvard Universit y Press, 1977.

• "`Orion' in `The Wreck of the Deutschland'." MLN ( 1961), 76:509-514.

• "Our Mutual Friend." In Ian Watt, ed., The Victorian Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism , pp. 123-132. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

• "A Panel Discussion." J. Hillis Miller, James Cowan, James Gindin, Charles Rossman, Avrom Fleishman, John Unterecker. In Alan Warren Friedman, ed., Forms of Modern British Fiction , pp. 201-232. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975.

• Panelist with Barbara Johnson and Louis Mackey. "Marxism and Deconstruction: Symposium at the Conference of Contemporary Genre Theory and the Yale School 1 June 1984." In Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer, eds., Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale , pp. 75-97. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

• Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth- Century Writers . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965; London: Oxford University Press, 1966. New York: Atheneum, 1969.

• "President's Column: Responsibility and the Joy of Reading." MLA Newsletter (Spring 1986), 18(1): 2.

• "President's Column: Responsibility and the Joy (?) of Teaching." MLA Newsletter (Summer 1986), 18(2): 2.

• "President's Column: The Obligation to Write." MLA Newsletter (Fall 1986), 18(3): 4-5.

• "Presidential Address, 1986. The Triumph of Theory, the Resistance to Reading, and the Question of the Material Base." PMLA (May 1987), 102(3): 281-291.

• "Problematic Ending in Narrative." Nineteenth-Century Fiction ( 1978), 33(1): 3-7.

• "Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century." Studies in English Literature 1500- 1900 (Autumn 1969), 9:737-753.

• "Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century." Studies in English Literature 1500- 1900 (Winter 1970), 10:183-214.

• "Recent Work on Hardy." Victorian Studies (March 1967), 10:278-282.

• "Review of Paul Ricoeur's Temps et récit: Tome III and Time and Narrative ." TLS [ Times Literary Supplement ] (October 9, 1987): 1104.

• "TheRewording Shell: Natural Image and Symbolic Emblem in Yeat's Early Poetry." In Roland Hagenbuchle and Joseph T. Swann, eds., Poetic Knowledge: Circumference and Center , pp. 75-86. Bonn: Bouvier, 1980.

• "The Search for Grounds in Literary Study." In Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer, eds., Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale , pp.19-36. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

• "Some Implications of Form in Victorian Fiction." Comparative Literature Studies ( 1966), 3:109-118.

• "The Sources of Dickens's Comic Art: From American Notes to Martin Chuzzlewit ." Nineteenth-Century Fiction (March 1970), 24:467-476.

• "Stevens' Rock and Criticism as Cure (Part I)." Georgia Review (Spring 1976), 30(1): 5-31.

• "Stevens' Rock and Criticism as Cure (Part II)." Georgia Review (Summer 1976), 30(2): 330-348.

• "The Still Heart: Poetic Form in Wordsworth." New Literary History ( 1971), 2:297-310.

• "The Stone and the Shell: The Problem of Poetic Form in Wordsworth's Dream of the Arab." Mouvements premiers: Etudes critiques offerts à Georges Poulet , pp. 125-147. Paris: 1972.

• "The Theme of the Disappearance of God in Victorian Poetry." Victorian Studies ( 1963), 6:207-227.

• "Theology and Logology in Victorian Literature." Journal of the American Academy of Religion ( 1979), Supplement, 47(2): 345-361.

• "Theoretical and Atheoretical in Stevens." In Frank A. Doggett and Robert Buttell, eds., Wallace Stevens: A Celebration , pp. 274-285. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

• "Theory and Practice: Response to Vincent Leitch." Critical Inquiry (Summer 1980), 6:609-614. Response to Vincent B. Leitch's "The Lateral Dance: The Deconstructive Criticism of J. Hil lis Miller," Critical Inquiry (Summer 1980), 6:593-608.

• "Thomas Hardy: A Sketch for a Portrait." In De Ronsard à Breton: Hommages à Marcel Raymond , pp. 195-206. Paris: Corti, 1967.

• Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press, 1970.

• "Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the `Dislocation of souls'." In Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, eds., Psychoanalysis and Literature , pp. 135-145. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Universi ty Press, 1984.

• "Three Problems of Fictional Form: First-Person Narration in David Copperfield and Huckleberry Flynn ." In Roy Harvey Pearce, ed., Experience in the Novel , pp. 21-48. Selected Papers from the English Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.

• "Topography and Tropography in Thomas Hardy's `In Front of the Landscape'." In Mario J. Valdes and Owen Miller, eds., Identity of the Literary , pp. 73-91. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.

• "Topography in The Return of the Native ." Essays in Literature (Fall 1981), 8(2): 119-134.

• "`Tradition and Difference.'" Review of M. H. Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism . Diacritics (Winter 1972), 2(4): 6-13.

• "Trollope's Thackeray." Nineteenth-Century Fiction (December 1982), 37(3): 350-357.

• "The Two Allegories." In Morton W. Bloomfield, ed., Allegory, Myth, and Symbol , pp. 355-370. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

• "The Two Relativisms: Point of View and Indeterminacy in the Novel Absalom, Absalom! ." In Jean Betty Craige, ed., Relativism in the Arts , pp. 148-170. Athens: University of G eorgia Press, 1982.

• "The Two Rhetorics: George Eliot's Bestiary." In G. Douglas Atkins and Michael L. Johnson, eds, Writing and Reading Differently: Deconstruction and the Teaching of Composition and Literature , pp. 101-1 14. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.

• "Virginia Woolf's All Souls' Day: The Omniscient Narrator in Mrs. Dalloway." In Melvin J. Friedman and John P. Vickery, eds., The Shaken Realist: Essays in Modern Literature in Honor of Frederick J. Hoffman , pp. 100-127. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.

• "Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Being." ELH (March 1964), 31:86-105.

• "Walter Pater: A Partial Portrait." Daedalus (Winter 1976), 105(1): 97-113.

• "When Is a Primitive like an Orb?" In Mary Ann Caws, ed., Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading , pp. 167-181. New York: MLA, 1986.

• Edited, with an Introduction, pp. 1-14. William Carlos Williams: A Collection of Critical Essays . Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Spectrum Book, 1966.

• "William Carlos Williams: The Doctor as Poet." Plexus ( 1968), 3(4): 19-20.

• "Williams' Spring and All and the Progress of Poetry." Daedalus ( 1970), 99(2): 405-434.

• "Wuthering Heights and the Ellipses of Interpretation." Notre Dame English Journal ( 1980), 12:85-100.