Reading Theory Now

Foreword: "Exergue: Miller from A to Z, Or: Miller on Dunne on Miller" by J. Hillis Miller Introduction: "Excursus, Excursus"A (Anacoluthon)B (Beginnings)C (Character)D (Decision)E (Exegesis)F (Figure)G (Graph)H (Hypertext)I (Intersubjectivity)J (Joy)K (Kiss)L (Line)M (Middle)N (Nachträglickeit)O (Others)P (Promise)Q (queer)R (Responsibility)S (Surd)T (Topography)U (Uncanny)V (Virtuality)W (Writing)X (X)Y (Yarn)Z (Zero)Afterword: "ABCing you: Raising the Stakes of/for Reading or, Miller's Tale"by Julian Wolfreys Annotated BibliographyIndex

Dr amonn Dunne is a teacher of English at Col iste Chraobh Abhann school in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. He is the author of J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: Literature after Deconstruction (2010) and has research interests in pedagogy, popular culture, queer theory and narratology.

It would not be unfair to say that Eamonn Dunne knows Hillis Miller better than the eminent critic and literary theorist knows himself. This is another invaluable addition to the secondary literature on Miller. With it Dunne reminds us of the essential nature of Miller's writing for the study of literature today. Reading Reading Theory Now I am persuaded by Dunne that Miller remains our most vital and remarkable thinker of literature; without a familiarity with Miller any training in reading literature would be incomplete. Perhaps, it is where that training should begin. Dunne has rendered us all a great service once more. -- Martin McQuillan, Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK Good, good - this is so good a reading of good reading, an alphabetical living out of the good life that is reading. This life has just got better, stranger, strange as ABC. -- John Schad, Professor of Modern Literature and Head of Department, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK Eamonn Dunne's ABC, his second book about J. Hillis Miller, operates a kind of a jouissant reading (J is for Joy!), and in that it comes to the proximity of Barthes and Derrida's works on the originary affirmation of reading: both in its conceptual lucidity, and its performative ecstasy. Each letter, each entry from A to Z, feels like a strip of film through which the work of J. Hillis Miller is screened, amplified, projected, embellished, 'seasoned,' sublated and illuminated. -- Dragan Kujundzic, Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and Film and Media Studies, University of Florida, USA