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Topographies » (1)
Authors: J. Hillis Miller
ISBN-13: 9780804723794, ISBN-10: 0804723796
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: March 1995
Edition: 1
Author Biography: J. Hillis Miller
Book Synopsis
This book investigates the function of topographical names and descriptions in a variety of narratives, poems, and philosophical or theoretical texts, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, but including also Plato and the Bible. Topics include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power, the translation of theory from one topographical location to another, the way topographical delineations can function as parable or allegory, and the relation of personification to landscape.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Philosophy, Literature, Topography: Heidegger and Hardy | 9 |
| 2 | Face to Face: Faces, Places, and Ethics in Plato | 57 |
| 3 | Laying Down the Law in Literature: Kleist | 80 |
| 4 | Sam Weller's Valentine: Dickens | 105 |
| 5 | Temporal Topographies: Tennyson's Tears | 134 |
| 6 | Naming, Doing, Placing: Hopkins | 150 |
| 7 | Nietzsche in Basel: Changing Places in Thus Spoke Zarathustra | 169 |
| 8 | Ideology and Topography: Faulkner | 192 |
| 9 | Slipping Vaulting Crossing: Heidegger | 216 |
| 10 | The Ethics of Topography: Stevens | 255 |
| 11 | Derrida's Topographies | 291 |
| 12 | Border Crossings, Translating Theory: Ruth | 316 |
| Notes | 341 | |
| Index | 369 |
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