Topographies - Paperback

by J. Hillis Miller (Author)

A Stanford University Press classic.

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This book investigate a cluster of related concepts as they gather around the central question of topography. The other topics include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power, the translation of theory from one topographical location to another, the way topographical delineations can function as a parable or allegory, the relation of personification to landscape.