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Lawrence L. Langer, a literary scholar whose unblinking assessment of the Holocaust as an event so vast and evil that it defies moral framing helped d ....
J. Hillis Miller, 92, Dies; Helped Revolutionize Literary Studies He was most closely associated with the Yale School, which took on the foundations of literary scholarship in the 1970s and ’80s. The literary critic J. Hillis Miller in 2009. He was not only deconstruction’s great explicator; he was also its great defender.Credit.Jeremy Maryott Feb. 13, 2021 J. Hillis Miller, a literary critic who, by applying the wickedly difficult analytic method known as deconstruction to a broad range of British and American prose and poetry, helped revolutionize the study of literature, died on Feb. 7 at his home in Sedgwick, Me. He was 92. ....