Ariadne’s Thread (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Hillis Miller, Jr.
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Self, Literature, Symbolism, Metaphysics
When Ariadne gave Theseus a thread at the entrance of the Cretan labyrinth, she knew that he could easily find his way in. The challenge was to help him find his way out. Ariadne’s Thread makes the same assumption of its readers. This book is not an introduction to story lines or the lines of narrative theory. Rather, Ariadne’s Thread assumes that the reader is already caught in a critical labyrinth, that the reader is aware of the many intellectual currents that converge in the multifaceted processes of literary criticism at the end of the twentieth century....
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