Indigenous Peoples and Digital Surfers: Miller's China Speech Collection

Author: Miller
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: With the hope of making up for this discount, the author compiled most of the available speeches by Miller in China, along with some responses from scholars. To provide Chinese readers with a comprehensive understanding of Miller, we specifically invited Miller to write a self-introduction for this book. Through his personal academic journey, we can vividly and vividly feel some developments in literary theory in the United States, while also clearly seeing the changes and evolution of Miller's critical thought. In his early years, he advocated "consciousness criticism" theory, believing that literature is basically a form of consciousness, and works are expressions of consciousness in the form of literature through thought. Later, after the prevalence of deconstructionism, he shifted from following Plei to supporting Derrida's deconstructionism. The book also includes Miller's academic resume and bibliography, attempting to present a full picture of Miller's academic work. But I know that this is actually impossible. All these efforts can at most reduce the discount that Miller receives in China. This reduction comes from the fact that reading articles is always more comprehensive and in-depth than listening to speeches, and a series of articles are conducive to mutual reference and a more complete understanding of Miller's thought. One regrettable point is that some of Miller's speech texts during his early visits to China were not translated into Chinese and published at the time. Additionally, each time Miller visited China, he gave lectures in various places and schools, and this book can only mark one unit as representative. It should also be noted that there are already quite a number of articles in China on Miller's research, translation, and interviews. Only four of them are selected as representatives, which is limited by the theme and scope of this book.