J. Hillis Miller先生,一路走好!
据加州大学尔湾分校官网消息,国际知名文学理论家、解构主义耶鲁学派四大家之一的J. Hillis Miller(1928—2021)美国时间2021年2月8日病逝于缅因州的塞奇威克(Sedgwick),享年92岁。
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J. Hillis Miller的主要著作:
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James (New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2005)
Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958)
The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1963)
Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1965)
The Form of Victorian Fiction: Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith and Hardy (Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1968)
Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire (Cambridge: Harvard, 1970)
Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982)
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens (Princeton,: Princeton UP, 1985)
The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin (New York: Columbia UP, 1987)
Versions of Pygmalion (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990)
Hawthorne & History: Defacing It (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991)
Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992)
Theory Now and Then (Durham: Duke UP, 1991)
Illustration (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992)
New Starts: Performative Topographies in Literature and Criticism (Taipei: The Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, 1993)
Topographies (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995)
Reading Narrative (Norman: Oklahoma UP, 1998)
Black Holes Co-author with Manuel Asensi (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999)
Speech Acts in Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)
Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)
J. Hillis Miller跟中国的渊源颇深,与中国很多学者均有深深浅浅的学术联系,他也在中国做过30余场学术报告,这些报告积集成书,书名为An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China,估计是戏仿马克·吐温的Innocents Abroad而定的书名,从字面上也可见他的谦虚。
这两部作品国内都有译本,前者译为《萌在他乡:米勒中国演讲集》,2016年南京大学出版社出版。后者有人译为《傻子出国记》,适合马克·吐温的文体风格。根据米勒先生的谦逊风格,密勒先生的演讲集也不妨译为《傻子出国记:中国演讲集》。