ABSTRACT
Miller’s theory is connected intimately with reading literature and thinking about it. The chapter will examine mostly Miller’s Theory Now and Then and The J. Hillis Miller Reader, edited by Julian Wolfreys, which includes Miller’s writing and responses by others. In 1967, Miller writes about the Geneva School in a similar way as he does in 1975 and 2014 about the Yale School. In Tropes, Parables, Performatives, a collection of earlier essays from 1952 onward, Miller examines twentieth-century literature. In Theory Now and Then, Miller says that the book collects his “more overtly theoretical essays published between 1966 and 1989,” ones “marked by their occasions” more than those he brought together in Victorian Subjects and Tropes, Parables, Performances. In Illustration, Miller explores the shift from reading to theory, particular cultural studies, and the connections between picture and word, also important for cultural studies.
