Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. J. L. Austin 2. Jacques Derrida 3. Paul de Man 4. Passion performative: Derrida, Wittgenstein, Austin 5. Marcel Proust Coda: allegory as speech act Notes Index.

About the Author

J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of Black Holes (which was published with J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading by Manuel Asensi) (Stanford, 1999)

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