Paul Allen Miller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 484927 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Allen Miller |
| PRENOMES | Paul Allen |
| SOBRENOME | Miller |
| ASSINATURA | MILLER P A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5111-1470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Problem of the Dandy in the Aesthetics of Existence
Foucault is accused of reducing the Stoics to dandies, through his focus on the aesthetics of existence in ancient philosophy. This is a charge he denies in the Hermeneutics of the Subject. In the following year’s lectures, he opens with a reading of Kant’s “Answer to the Question ‘What is Enlightenment,’” a text on which he published both in French and English. In the English version, he compares Kant’s text to Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Moder…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
In the Beginning Was the Logos
In the Beginning Was the LogosReason and Revolution1 Paul Allen Miller But before being reined in and tamed by the kosmos and order of truth, logos is a wild creature, an ambiguous animality. —Derrida, Dissemination 1162 Socrates in the Apology says that the jurors who voted to convict him and will shortly vote to kill him probably won't believe it when he says it is not an option for him to remain silent, that he cannot live a quiet life. It is …
Catullus Beyond the Pleasure Principle
This chapter begins with Catullus’s exclusion from the History of Sexuality. It, then, turns to Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle and considers three Catullan poems (23, 67, and 97) from the perspective of Freud’s concept of the death drive, which Foucault does not expressly admit. Lastly, it returns to the larger stakes of Foucault’s History of Sexuality and his critique of Freud. It argues that while Catullus is not, in fact, a sexual subje…
Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity
In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège de France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants, his topic will be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in relation to truth. On the other, the texts on which he will concentrate will no longer be those of the early modern period. Rather, he begins with one by Dio Cassius on the emperor Septimius …
Rethinking Sexuality
Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
There are forms of enjoyment in Catullus that cannot be understood within the norms of pleasure as opposed to pain or unpleasure. This is an enjoyment that Freud would claim is beyond the pleasure principle, and thus integrally related to aggression, violence, and death: an enjoyment that is at once abject and sublime. Taking off from Mario Telò’s Archive Feelings, this paper examines these forms of enjoyment and how they function within the aest…
On the road with Tibullus
In poem 1.7, Tibullus celebrates the accomplishments of Messalla as an incarnation of Osiris. The occasion of the poem is the birthday of the triumphant general, and the mythic evocation of the god that occupies its center, as in a Pindaric ode, was meant to reflect the glory of the laudandus. The identification of Messalla, a Roman patrician, with the eastern, castrated consort of Isis is striking. In part, poem’s the mythic center functions so …
Horace
Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BC) has never really been out of fashion. Petrarch, for example, modelled his letters on Horace’s innovative Epistles, while also borrowing from his Roman forebear in composing his own Italian sonnets. The echo of Horace’s voice can be fo…
Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero
Introduction
Enjoyment Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Enjoyment Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleAntigone, Julian of Norwich, and the Use of Pleasures Paul Allen Miller In 1984 Michel Foucault published the long awaited sequel to his Histoire de la sexualité. The Use of Pleasures, as volume two was titled, ends with a final chapter called “True Love,” which offers a reading of Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus. In many ways, this chapter is crucial to understanding Foucault’s whole project in the History o…
Classics
Classics sees theory as a supplement and many comparative literature programs see premodern intellectual life the same way. This mutual suspicion accounts for much of the way theory is taught. In classics, it is often part of a quick proseminar. In comparative literature, theory is said to begin with Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Plato and Aristotle are nodded to, but not seriously read. The model adopted at the University of South Carolina sees cl…
Diotima at the Barricades
Diotima at the Barricades' argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition
Dreams and Other Fictions
This article offers a close reading of the passages leading up to the myth of the cave and contends that the Republic frames this famous passage less as the illustration of a transcendental truth than as a problematic and self-referential meditation on the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of distinguishing between being and seeming. It contends that the myth when read in context not only asks us to distinguish between shadows on the wall …
The puella
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The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an …
‘What's Love got to do with it?’
This article notes that the largely erotic poetry written by canonical Latin elegists are ‘ironic, darkly comic, and politically self-conscious’. It specifically argues that ancient Latin elegy could be self-reflexive, to the point that its very ground of reflection can be located in its own narration of experience. Then, it informs that the complexities of Latin elegy do not make much of the ‘mourning, self-pity, and long good byes that would ch…
The Platonic Remainder
Derrida's reading of the Timaeus in Khôra is critical to our understanding first of Derrida, then Plato, and finally to the constitution of philosophy per se. The reading of the khôra in the Timaeus is critical to our understanding of Derrida because it contains certain clear homologies with his earlier readings of Plato as evidenced in 'La Pharmacie de Platon' and La Carte postale, among other texts. Second, to the same degree that Khôra reveals…
Persius, Irony, and Truth
This article argues that Persius' claim to truth is inseparable from the stylistic complexity of his poetry. Irony becomes a method of truth-telling, not simply as a means of demystification but also as a way of pointing beyond the corruption of contemporary language. Part I of the article examines Persius' general discussion of poetic style throughout the corpus in light of Stoic conceptions of truth and the "sayable." Part II focuses on the ope…
Subjecting Verses
Ethics and Irony
Ethics and Irony Paul Allen Miller (bio) Moral action, in fact, is what has entered into the Real. It introduces something new into the Real, creating a wake that sanctions the point of our presence. (Lacan 1986: 30)1 It seems to me that the analysis of governmentality—that is to say: the analysis of power as an ensemble of reversible relations—must refer itself to an ethic of the subject defined by the relation of the self to itself. This means …
Catullus and Roman Love Elegy
This chapter contains section titled: Elegiac Formal Similarities Thematic Similarities The Problem of Genre Catullus 68 Conclusion
The Art of Self-Fashioning, or Foucault on Plato and Derrida
This paper examines Foucault's reading of Plato and ancient philosophy as part of his continuing dialogue and debate with Derrida. It contends that this debate not only in part motivates Foucault's turn to antiquity, but also is directly revelatory of the most basic differences between Foucault's and Derrida's conceptions of philosophy
Subjecting Verses
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry wit…
Subjecting Verses
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry wit…
Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness
The Bodily Grotesque in Roman Satire
The Bodily Grotesque in Roman Satire: Images of Sterility 1 Paul Allen Miller The joyful, open, festive laugh. The closed, purely negative satirical laugh. This is not a laughing laugh. The Gogolian laugh is joyful. 2 It is virtually impossible today to write about the body, the grotesque, or the comic without encountering the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. Since the publication of Rabelais and His World, Bakhtin's concepts of "carnival" and "grotesque…
The classical roots of poststructuralism
The Minotaur within
Horace, Mercury, and Augustus, or the Poetic Ego of Odes 1-3
Diotima at the Barricades
Diotima at the Barricades' argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition
Dreams and Other Fictions
This article offers a close reading of the passages leading up to the myth of the cave and contends that the Republic frames this famous passage less as the illustration of a transcendental truth than as a problematic and self-referential meditation on the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of distinguishing between being and seeming. It contends that the myth when read in context not only asks us to distinguish between shadows on the wall …
Persius, Irony, and Truth
This article argues that Persius' claim to truth is inseparable from the stylistic complexity of his poetry. Irony becomes a method of truth-telling, not simply as a means of demystification but also as a way of pointing beyond the corruption of contemporary language. Part I of the article examines Persius' general discussion of poetic style throughout the corpus in light of Stoic conceptions of truth and the "sayable." Part II focuses on the ope…
Crux as Symptom
Paul Allen Miller, Chuck Platter, Charles Platter, Crux as Symptom: Augustan Elegy and Beyond, The Classical World, Vol. 92, No. 5, Power, Politics, & Discourse in Augustan Elegy (May - Jun., 1999), pp. 445-454
Sidney, Petrarch, and Ovid, or Imitation as Subversion
Horace, Mercury, and Augustus, or the Poetic Ego of Odes 1-3
The Minotaur within
Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness
Rethinking Sexuality
In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality , on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together the historical knowledge, philological skills, and theoretical perspective…
The Bodily Grotesque in Roman Satire
The Bodily Grotesque in Roman Satire: Images of Sterility 1 Paul Allen Miller The joyful, open, festive laugh. The closed, purely negative satirical laugh. This is not a laughing laugh. The Gogolian laugh is joyful. 2 It is virtually impossible today to write about the body, the grotesque, or the comic without encountering the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. Since the publication of Rabelais and His World, Bakhtin's concepts of "carnival" and "grotesque…
The classical roots of poststructuralism
Rethinking Sexuality
Crux as Symptom
Paul Allen Miller, Chuck Platter, Charles Platter, Crux as Symptom: Augustan Elegy and Beyond, The Classical World, Vol. 92, No. 5, Power, Politics, & Discourse in Augustan Elegy (May - Jun., 1999), pp. 445-454
Toward a Post-Foucauldian History of Discursive Practices
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 1999
Rethinking Sexuality
In this collection of essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's work presents a theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times. These essays should help the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence from Greece and Rome
Metamorphosis
(2002). Metamorphosis: Travel narratives and aboriginal/non‐aboriginal relations in the 1930s. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, Country, pp. 85-92
Why Difference Matters
Latin Erotic Elegy
This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form, and the Roman context, with particular focus on th…
The Trouble with Theory
The Trouble with Theory: A Comparatist Manifesto Paul Allen Miller (bio) The trouble with contemporary theory can be summed up by a single symptomatic fact: theory has become the property of English Departments. This is not a slur on the competence of my colleagues who study Anglophone texts. They deploy abstract concepts as well or better than most comparatists. Nonetheless, the fact is that most of today’s theory derives, in origin if not in it…
Subjecting Verses
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry wit…
The Art of Self-Fashioning, or Foucault on Plato and Derrida
This paper examines Foucault's reading of Plato and ancient philosophy as part of his continuing dialogue and debate with Derrida. It contends that this debate not only in part motivates Foucault's turn to antiquity, but also is directly revelatory of the most basic differences between Foucault's and Derrida's conceptions of philosophy
Catullus and Roman Love Elegy
This chapter contains section titled: Elegiac Formal Similarities Thematic Similarities The Problem of Genre Catullus 68 Conclusion
Subjecting Verses
Ethics and Irony
Ethics and Irony Paul Allen Miller (bio) Moral action, in fact, is what has entered into the Real. It introduces something new into the Real, creating a wake that sanctions the point of our presence. (Lacan 1986: 30)1 It seems to me that the analysis of governmentality—that is to say: the analysis of power as an ensemble of reversible relations—must refer itself to an ethic of the subject defined by the relation of the self to itself. This means …
The Platonic Remainder
Derrida's reading of the Timaeus in Khôra is critical to our understanding first of Derrida, then Plato, and finally to the constitution of philosophy per se. The reading of the khôra in the Timaeus is critical to our understanding of Derrida because it contains certain clear homologies with his earlier readings of Plato as evidenced in 'La Pharmacie de Platon' and La Carte postale, among other texts. Second, to the same degree that Khôra reveals…
Persius, Irony, and Truth
This article argues that Persius' claim to truth is inseparable from the stylistic complexity of his poetry. Irony becomes a method of truth-telling, not simply as a means of demystification but also as a way of pointing beyond the corruption of contemporary language. Part I of the article examines Persius' general discussion of poetic style throughout the corpus in light of Stoic conceptions of truth and the "sayable." Part II focuses on the ope…
‘What's Love got to do with it?’
This article notes that the largely erotic poetry written by canonical Latin elegists are ‘ironic, darkly comic, and politically self-conscious’. It specifically argues that ancient Latin elegy could be self-reflexive, to the point that its very ground of reflection can be located in its own narration of experience. Then, it informs that the complexities of Latin elegy do not make much of the ‘mourning, self-pity, and long good byes that would ch…
The puella
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an …
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