Dear all:
J. Hillis Miller has died, 92 years old. From his obituary at Yale:
"Miller’s best-known article, “The Critic as Host,” published in response
to “The Deconstructive Angel,” by M. H. Abrams, appeared in 1976. Toward
the end of his time at Yale three books came out in rapid succession, the
first two being Fiction and Repetition and The Linguistic Moment (again
about poetry, Wordsworth to Stevens). The third of these, The Lesson of
Paul de Man (1985), responded both to the death of de Man and to the
controversy about de Man’s wartime journalism that had preceded it. To this
period too belonged Miller’s crucial contributions to the topic he called
“the ethics of reading.” In 1986, still amid the swirl of events and
opinions following de Man’s death, Miller departed for UC Irvine, where he
finished his career, publishing many more important books, engaging in
particular the ethical turn of the later Derrida, who visited Irvine
annually after Hillis went there."
https://english.yale.edu/news/department-news/memoriam-professor-j-hillis-miller
Take care.
Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld
Poland
https://torgeirfjeld.com/
