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

Author: J. Hillis Miller [J.Hillis]
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: With the hope of making up for this discount, I have compiled most of the speeches by Miller that can be found in China, along with some responses from scholars, into this book. To give Chinese readers a comprehensive understanding of Miller, I specifically invited him to write a self-introduction for this book. Through his personal academic journey, we can vividly and vividly feel some of the developments of literary theory in the United States, and at the same time, we can clearly see the changes and development 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 consciousness forms expressed in literary form through thought. Later, after the prevalence of deconstructionism, he shifted from following Plei to supporting Derrida's deconstructionism. This 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, helping to understand Miller's thought more completely. One regrettable point is that some of the individual speech texts of Miller during his early visits to China were not translated into Chinese and published at the time. In addition, every time Miller comes to China, he gives lectures in various places and schools. 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.