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Ariadne's Thread

Story Lines

Ariadne's Thread( )
Author: Miller, J. Hillis
ISBN:978-0-300-05216-9
Publication Date:May 1992
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $65.00
Book Description:

An exploration of the intricacies of narrative theory. Considering a range of texts from Western literature over the past two centuries, Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language interrupt, break into, delay and expand storytelling.

Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Fiction Writing
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.13 x 9.25 x 1.06 Inches
Book Weight:1.8 Pounds
Author Biography
Miller, J. Hillis (Author)
J. Hillis Miller, Jr. (born March 5, 1928) is an American literary critic. He was born in Newport News, Virginia and graduated from Oberlin College. He also went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University. From 1952 to 1972, Miller taught at Johns Hopkins University.

Miller's works include The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers; The Form of Victorian Fiction: Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy; Versions of Pygmalion; Hawthorne & History: Defacing It; Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James; The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz, and Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch Revisited.

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