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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Hillis Miller Jr. was an American literary critic and scholar who advanced theories of literary deconstruction. He was part of the Yale School along with scholars including Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, and Geoffrey Hartman, who advocated deconstruction as an analytical means by which the relationship between literary text and the associated meaning could be analyzed. Through his career, Miller was associated with the Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and University of California, Irvine, and wrote over 50 books studying a wide range of American and British literature using principles of deconstruction.

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Deconstruction and Criticism (1979) (260)
The Critic as Host (1977) (227)
Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels. (1982) (218)
Giving according to GARP: an experimental test of the rationality of altruism (1999) (138)
Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers (1965) (129)
The Disappearance of God: FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITERS (1963) (125)
Speech Acts in Literature (2002) (119)
Medium Theory (2009) (111)
Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (1958) (108)
The Ethics of Reading: Kant, De Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin (1989) (101)
The History of 0 (2004) (91)
Fiction And Repetition (1982) (91)
Narrative and History (1974) (85)
Presidential Address 1986. The Triumph of Theory, the Resistance to Reading, and the Question of the Material Base (1987) (84)
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James (2005) (83)
Versions of Pygmalion (1992) (79)
Thomas Hardy, Distance And Desire (1970) (74)
Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines (1992) (61)
The Ethics of Reading (1986) (58)
Performativity as Performance / Performativity as Speech Act: Derrida's Special Theory of Performativity (2007) (52)
Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) (44)
Ariadne's Thread: Repetition and the Narrative Line (1976) (43)
Theory now and then (1991) (43)
Theology and Logology in Victorian Literature (1979) (36)
THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET (1980) (36)
The Conflagration of Community: Fiction before and after Auschwitz (2011) (35)
Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (2016) (34)
The Problematic of Ending in Narrative (1978) (33)
Communities in Fiction (2014) (27)
Literature as Conduct (2022) (22)
Derrida's Destinerrance (2006) (22)
AUCTIONS WITH ADAPTIVE ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT AGENTS (1990) (22)
Heart of Darkness revisited (1990) (21)
Tropes, parables, performatives : essays on twentieth-century literature (1991) (20)
The Form of Victorian Fiction: Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy (1968) (20)
Theory and the Disappearing Future—on de Man, on Benjamin (2011) (19)
William Carlos Williams: A Collection of Critical Essays (1968) (19)
The Ambivalence of Reading@@@The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response@@@The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett@@@"Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response in Prose Fiction," in Aspects of Narrative (1980) (18)
The Geneva School (1966) (18)
Globalization and World Literature (2011) (18)
The act of the mind : essays on the poetry of Wallace Stevens (1965) (17)
Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric (2002) (17)
The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche (1981) (16)
Youth and the Future (1936) (16)
Aspects of narrative : selected papers from the English Institute (1971) (16)
The Function of Rhetorical Study at the Present Time. (1979) (14)
The Medium Is the Maker: Browning, Freud, Derrida, and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies (2009) (14)
The Ethics of Hypertext (1995) (12)
Cultural Studies and Reading. (1997) (12)
Reading for Our Time: 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited (2012) (12)
Derrida's Topographies (1994) (11)
Border Crossings:Translating Theory (1991) (11)
Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Being (1964) (11)
Tropes, Parables, and Performatives (1990) (11)
The lesson of Paul de Man (1985) (10)
Derrida’s Others (1996) (10)
What Is a Kiss? Isabel’s Moments of Decision (2005) (10)
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: Derrida and literature (2002) (10)
What Do Stories about Pictures Want? (2008) (10)
Henry James and “Focalization,” or Why James Loves Gyp (2007) (10)
A Guest in the House: Reply to Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan's Reply (1980) (9)
Literature Matters Today (2013) (9)
Williams "Spring and All" and the Progress of Poetry. (1970) (9)
For Derrida (2022) (9)
The Literary Criticism of Georges Poulet (1963) (8)
Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank (1971) (8)
‘Don't count me in’: Derrida's refraining (2007) (8)
An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China (2015) (7)
Derrida's Politics of Autoimmunity (2009) (7)
Geneva or Paris?: The Recent Work of Georges Poulet (1970) (7)
Hawthorne & history: Defacing it (1991) (7)
Promises, Promises: Speech Act Theory, Literary Theory, and Politico-Economic Theory in Marx and de Man (2002) (7)
Touching Derrida Touching Nancy: The Main Traits of Derrida's Hand1 (2008) (7)
Dismembering and Disremembering in Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" (1981) (7)
Boundaries In Beloved (2008) (7)
The Creation of the Self in Gerard Manley Hopkins (1955) (7)
‘Hieroglyphical Truth’ in Sartor Resartus: Carlyle and the Language of Parable (1989) (7)
Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy’s “In Front of the Landscape” (1990) (6)
The J. Hillis Miller Reader (2004) (6)
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak (2000) (6)
A Coevolutionary Model Of Free Riding Behavior: Replicator Dtnamics As An Explanaton Of The Experimental Results (1990) (6)
On Edge: The Crossways of Contemporary Criticism (2019) (6)
Time in literature (2003) (6)
The University of Dissensus1 (1995) (6)
The Still Heart: Poetic Form in Wordsworth (1971) (6)
The Waves as Exploration of (An)aesthetic of Absence (2014) (5)
Deconstructing the Deconstructers@@@The Inverted Bell: Modernism and the Counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams (1975) (5)
Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The rhythm of creativity in To the Lighthouse (1990) (5)
Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? (2011) (5)
Moments of decision in Bleak House (2001) (5)
Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (1999) (5)
Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age (2005) (5)
The Two Rhetorics: George Eliot’s Bestiary (2002) (5)
Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2013) (5)
Oscar in The Tragic Muse (2006) (5)
Middlemarch, Chapter 85: Three Commentaries (1980) (4)
The role of higher education in war and after (1944) (4)
Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank : papers read at a Clark Library Seminar on May 9, 1970 (1971) (4)
In Defense of Higher Education (1943) (4)
Literature and History: The Example of Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" (1988) (4)
Temporal Topographies:Tennyson's Tears (1991) (4)
Moving Critical Inquiry On (2004) (4)
Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Text (2016) (4)
Is there an ethics of reading? : a lecture delivered at the fifty-eighth general meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan on 18th May 1986 (1986) (4)
Semiotics and Interpretation@@@Fiction and Repetition (1982) (4)
Introduction: Thinking across Continents (2016) (4)
The Ethics of Reading Sahitya (2016) (4)
More than Global (2016) (4)
Literary Study Among the Ruins (2003) (4)
A Recent imagining : interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man (1986) (4)
"World Literature": In the Age of Telecommunications (2000) (4)
Veterans challenge the colleges : the New York program (1948) (4)
Aphorism as Instrument of Political Action in Nietzsche (2004) (3)
Making Sahitya Matter (2016) (3)
The Sources of Dickens's Comic Art: From American Notes to Martin Chuzzlewit (1970) (3)
Literary Study in the University without Idea. (1996) (3)
Prosopopoeia in Hardy and Stevens (1989) (3)
Speech Acts, Decisions, and Community in The Mayor of Casterbridge (2004) (3)
Studying English Literature in the Transnational University (1996) (3)
Exchange of Letters About Literary Theory Between Zhang Jiang and J. Hillis Miller (2016) (3)
Stay! Speak, Speak. I Charge Thee, Speak: An Interview by Wang Fengzhen and Shaobo Xie (2000) (3)
A defense of literature and literary study in a time of globalization and the new tele-technologies (2007) (3)
Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as Virtual Reality (2004) (3)
Nietzsche in Basel: Writing Reading. (1993) (3)
Reading (about) Modern Chinese Literature in a Time of Globalization (2008) (3)
Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels (1986) (3)
"Beginning with a Text"@@@Beginnings: Intention and Method (1976) (3)
Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters: The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age (2018) (3)
Review Essay: Translating the Untranslatable (1990) (3)
HUMANISTIC DISCOURSE AND THE OTHERS (1994) (2)
Spirit Becomes Matter: The Brontës, George Eliot, Nietzsche (2016) (2)
6. Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness: Fiction as Testimony (2019) (2)
Absolute Mourning: It Is Jacques You Mourn For (2009) (2)
Theory and Practice: Response to Vincent Leitch (1980) (2)
Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark) (2008) (2)
Theoretical and Atheoretical in Stevens (1980) (2)
Who or What Decides For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision (2009) (2)
Derrida's Remains (2009) (2)
Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian Classroom (2016) (2)
The CounterText Interview: J. Hillis Miller (2018) (2)
The Interpretation of Otherness (1982) (2)
The Story of a Poem (2016) (2)
The Interpretation of Lord Jim (1970) (2)
What Ought Humanists To Do? (2014) (2)
The Profession of English: An Exchange. (1987) (2)
How To (Un)Globe the Earth in Four Easy Lessons (2012) (2)
The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive? (2012) (2)
Parody as Revisionary Critique: Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx (2004) (2)
Literature and a Woman's Right to Choose \-\- Not to Marry (2007) (2)
Derrida's Special Theory of Performativity (2009) (2)
History, narrative and responsibility: Speech acts in Henry James's ‘The Aspern Papers’ (1995) (2)
Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens’s “The Motive for Metaphor” (2016) (2)
Resignifying Excitable Speech (2011) (2)
Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the “Dislocation of Souls” (1990) (2)
Preserving the Literary Heritage: The Final Report of the Scholarly Advisory Committee on Modern Language and Literature of the Commission on Preservation and Access. (1991) (2)
The CounterText Conversation: Thinking Literature … (2017) (2)
The Mayor of Casterbridge, the Persistence of the Past, and the Dance of Desire (2000) (2)
What Is the Future of the Print Record (2016) (1)
The ‘Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect’: How To Raise a Ghost with Words (2003) (1)
Sovereignty Death Literature Unconditionality Democracy University (2005) (1)
Constructions in Criticism (1984) (1)
WHISTLER/SWINBURNE: “BEFORE THE MIRROR” (2011) (1)
Topography and Tropography in Thomas Hardy's In Front of the Landscape (1985) (1)
Creative education in the humanities (1951) (1)
Western Literary Theory in China (2018) (1)
The Indigene and the Cybersurfer (2003) (1)
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness (1996) (1)
Howe on Hardy's Art@@@Thomas Hardy (1969) (1)
Fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits (2006) (1)
The Late Derrida (2007) (1)
Tales out of (the Yale) School (2015) (1)
Reading for Our Time (2012) (1)
The Persistence of the Past in Hardy's Poetry (1968) (1)
Comes the Revolution (2016) (1)
"Mr. Sludge, C'est moi": The Conflict of Media (2009) (1)
Parabolic Exemplarity: The Example of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1995) (1)
Today, Tomorrow: The Intellectual in the Academy and in Society (1997) (1)
Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction (2015) (1)
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (2018) (1)
Differences in the Discipline of Literary Study (2018) (1)
Parable and performative in the Gospels and in modern literature (1990) (1)
Hands in Hardy (2010) (1)
"O sole mio!" the sun in Proust's "Séjour à Venise" (1997) (1)
Theory-Example-Reading-History (1987) (1)
9. Individual and Community in The Return of the Native: A Reappraisal (2006) (1)
Trollope's Thackeray (1982) (1)
Zero Among the Literary Theorists (2004) (1)
The Pathos of Deconstruction@@@The Ethics of Reading (1989) (1)
How to Read the Derridas: Indexing moi et moi, Der und Der, me and me, this one and that one (2015) (1)
Lying against Death: The Wings of the Dove (2005) (1)
On First Looking into Derrida's Glas (2016) (1)
The Following Tributes Were Offered at the Memorial Service for Paul de Man Held at the Yale University Art Gallery on January 18, 1984. (1985) (1)
Derrida, Benjamin, the Internet, and the New International (2001) (1)
Stray Savages All Around: Performative James or Fiction as Forgery (2013) (0)
Chapter Three: Reading Unreadability: de Man (1987) (0)
Modernist Hardy: Hand‐Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge (2010) (0)
Community (2019) (0)
CO-OPTING THE CRINOLINE: NEO-VICTORIAN FEMINISM AND THE POLITICS OF APPROPRIATIVE MOURNING (2009) (0)
Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation (2011) (0)
"Orion" in "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1961) (0)
Prologue: Community in Fiction after Auschwitz (2011) (0)
Poetics Today? (2019) (0)
10. Theory's Hope Theory's Hope (pp. 374-378) (2004) (0)
The Breakdown of Community and the Disabling of Speech Acts in Kafka’s The Trial (2011) (0)
The Ethics of Reading: Kant, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin (1990) (0)
Impossible Metaphor: Stevens's "The Red Fern" as Example (1985) (0)
The x-Front of Sound Thinking (1945) (0)
Conrad’s Colonial (Non)Community (2014) (0)
Postmodern Communities in Pynchon and Cervantes (2014) (0)
Self and Community (1981) (0)
George Eliot's Intellectual Life (2010) (0)
Varieties of Rural Experience: Country Communities in Virginia and Wessex (2018) (0)
Interpreting English Fiction@@@Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels (1983) (0)
Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’ 1 (2014) (0)
Questionnaire (2001) (0)
The Material Working of Spirit (2013) (0)
NAMING AND DOING: SPEECH ACTS IN HOPKINS'S POEMS (2016) (0)
Coordination is Council Theme (1938) (0)
Introduction to and Discussion Summary of Wang Hui's Humanism as the Theme of Chinese Modernity (1995) (0)
Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset as a Model of Victorian Community (2014) (0)
INTERPRETING ENGLISH FICTION (2016) (0)
The ethics of Topography:Stevens's ''The Idea of Order of Key West'' (1992) (0)
Performative Realism: Faulkner's ⋘Absalom, Absalom!⋙ (1992) (0)
Williams’ poetry of resignation (1990) (0)
History, Narrative, Responsibility: “The Aspern Papers” (2005) (0)
D. H. Lawrence: The Fox and the perspective glass (1990) (0)
The University, with Conditions (2015) (0)
The Story of a Kiss: Isabel's Decisions in The Portrait of A Lady (2005) (0)
Interlude as Anastomosis in Die Wahlverwandtschaften (2010) (0)
J. Hillis Miller essay, "Black Holes in the Internet Galaxy: Literary Study in the University Today" (2011) (0)
Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie inFramley Parsonage (2016) (0)
Theories of Community (2014) (0)
Marxism and Deconstruction: Symposium at the Conference on Contemporary Genre Theory and the Yale School, 1 June 1984 (2021) (0)
The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, and Benjamin (1987) (0)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1958) (1968) (0)
CHAPTER 2 Lying Against Death: Out of the Loop (2003) (0)
The “Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect,” or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past (2005) (0)
Occupational Adjustment Panel (1937) (0)
Thomas Hardy: a sketch for a portrait (1990) (0)
Derrida's Ethics of Irresponsibilization; or, How to Get Irresponsible, in Two Easy Lessons (2009) (0)
2. Foreshadowings of Auschwitz in Kafka’s Writings (2019) (0)
Winter 2005 Newsletter (2005) (0)
Iannone, Carol: News Articles (1991): Letter to the Editor 03 (1991) (0)
Derrida's Remains: Derrida's Memorials or Works of Mourning for Others Function Doubly. They Put the Dead Friend in His or Her Place. They Also Say the Best That Can Be Said for the Dead and Work to Ensure Their Survival (2006) (0)
Perceptions of Dylan Thomas (1966) (0)
Presidential Address - Reply (1988) (0)
History as repetition in Thomas Hardy’s poetry: the example of “Wessex Heights” (1990) (0)
JAC Audio Interview: J. Hillis Miller (1994) (0)
1. Barthes's Punctum Barthes's Punctum (pp. 539-574) (2005) (0)
Reply to David Miller (1987) (0)
Introduction: The Keywords Collective (2019) (0)
What Happens When I Read Conrad? (2020) (0)
Individual and Community in The Return of the Native (2014) (0)
A Profession of Faith (2009) (0)
My Fifty Years in the Profession. (2003) (0)
Relevant Discussion: The Role of Higher Education in War and After (1944) (0)
Index of Names, Titles of Works, and Characters (2019) (0)
Response by J. Hillis Miller (2013) (0)
4.1 'Derrida's topographies' (2001) (0)
Why Literature? A Profession (2010) (0)
What Happens When I Read (2019) (0)
Making History@@@Hawthorne & History: Defacing It@@@Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition & Revolution@@@The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life@@@The Office of "The Scarlet Letter" (1993) (0)
Response to College Literature's Forum on Thinking Literature Across Continents (2018) (0)
Back Matter (1974) (0)
Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation (1990) (0)
: Charles Dickens, A Critical Introduction. . K. J. Fielding. (1959) (0)
Who Speaks a Lie? (2018) (0)
Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Part II. (1970) (0)
Three Novels about the Shoah (2011) (0)
4. The Castle: No Mitsein, No Verifiable Interpretation (2019) (0)
Touching Derrida Touching Nancy (2009) (0)
Afterword : Comments and reflections by an “outsider” (2018) (0)
Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, et la dislocation des âmes in Derrida. (1988) (0)
“Conscious Perjury”: Declarations of Ignorance in The Golden Bowl (2005) (0)
Deconstruction and a Poem (2000) (0)
Reference in The Wings of the Dove: Literature as speech act (1999) (0)
The American connection Deconstruction ‘on the wild side’: Geoffrey Hartman 91 (2003) (0)
Language in Modern Literature: Innovation and Experiment@@@After the New Criticism@@@Literature against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society@@@Deconstruction and Criticism (1983) (0)
Catachreses for chaos: myth and irony in Friedrich Schlegel (1998) (0)
Agreement Needed: Report of Proceedings of the Conference of University Administrators on General and Liberal Education (1945) (0)
Significance of the 1956 social security amendments to the insurance business. (1958) (0)
How to Read the Derridas: Indexing moi et moi, Der und Der (2014) (0)
Baird's Ishmael@@@Ishmael (1956) (0)
Curran, Edward: Confirmation Hearing (1985): Correspondence 22 (1985) (0)
7. Morrison’s Beloved (2019) (0)
Response to Essays in Literary Imagination Forum on Ghosh-Miller Book (2018) (0)
: Dickens and Kafka: A Mutual Interpretation . Mark Spilka. (1964) (0)
The Antitheses of Criticism: Reflections on the Yale Colloquium (1966) (0)
Thoughts That Do Lie Too Deep for Tears: Comparative Literature Versus World Literature (2017) (0)
Contributors (1961) (0)
On Transforming the English Department: A Response to J. Hillis Miller (2016) (0)
Deconstruction and Ethics@@@Versions of Pygmalion (1992) (0)
Three. Fiction and Repetition: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1975) (0)
Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank. Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar on 9 May 1970@@@Dickens (1973) (0)
LITERATURE AND A WOMAN'S (2016) (0)

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