What is it about?
In this dialogue, one of the most influential literary theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries, J. Hillis Miller, reflects on the importance of literary analysis and close reading in a digital age haunted by (new) fascist leaders and catastrophic climate change.
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Why is it important?
An education in the humanities in general, and literary analysis in particular is essential to develop critical skills essential to tell the difference between truth and lies in an age in which this distinction is blurry at best.
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I consider it one of the main privileges of my career to have had this discussion with a literary critic and theorist who served as inspiration for so many of us in the humanities--J. Hillis Miller's intellectual generosity and far-reaching insights are here to stay.
Nidesh Lawtoo
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This page is a summary of: The Critic and the Mime, Minnesota Review, November 2020, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/00265667-8623756.
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