| Series Editor’s Preface
The Critical Inventions Series
The Boomerang Effect
“Mr. Sludge, c’est moi”
Derrida as Medium
Brief Coda or Post-Modern Tail Notes
Index |
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“For decades J. Hillis Miller has
been one of the best, most influential, and most prolific literary
critics writing in English. Always on the cutting edge of his discipline,
Miller has in many of his published works defined the location of
that edge for his fellow scholars. In his new book The Medium
is the Maker – Browning,
Freud, and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies, Miller once
again takes literary criticism in a fresh and unexpected direction,
thinking about the way the most recent communication technologies
alter notions of the self, of public and private space, of communication
as thought transference, to name only a few of the many issues Miller
touches on in this penetrating study. Reading Miller’s criticism
is always an intellectually rewarding and exhilarating experience,
as any reader of The Medium is the Maker will attest.” John
T. Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins
University
“An eloquent and entertaining audience with the spirits
of three famously telepathic texts.” Rachel Bowlby, Northcliffe
Professor of English at UCL
“J. Hillis Miller lulls the reader
to a catastrophic awakening to the forms of telepathic transference
haunting the forces of legibility.” Sigi Jöttkandt,
author of First Love: A Phenomenology of the One
“A rich and rigorous updating of Marshall
McLuhan’s ‘The Medium is the Message’ in terms
of key theaters of contemporary theoretical deliberation, above
all with respect to deconstruction, speech-act theory, and rhetorical
reading.” Henry Sussman, Department of Germanic Languages
and Literatures, Yale University
“A cunning engagement with contemporary
media, e-culture, and its implications not just for ‘literature’
but for the epistemo-political orders of life and politics today.”
Tom Cohen, Professor of English at the University at Albany of the
State University of New York
“This is J. Hillis Miller showing
us why telepathy is a phenomenon we can neither accept nor reject,
an affront to our rational selves that reveals something about reason
itself.” Derek Attridge, University of York
“An influential and prolific literary critic, Miller
attempts to provide a new understanding of the nexus between the
literary world and contemporary communication technologies. Examining
how these technologies alter (among other things) our notions of
the self and of public and private space, the author engages with
Browning, Freud and Derrida to provide a platform for personal discovery
and literary enlightenment.” Reference & Research
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