Tropes, Parables, and PerformativesTropes, Parables, Performatives collects J. Hillis Millers essays on seven major twentieth century authors: Lawrence, Kafka, Stevens, Williams, Woolf, Hardy, and Conrad. For all their evident differences, these essays from early to late explore a single intuition about literature, which may be framed by three words: trope, parable, and performative. Throughout these essays Miller is fascinated with the tropological dimension of literary language, with