Earl Miner

Earl Miner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is co-author of the forthcoming Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature.

Letter

Wild, Fierce Yale

21 October 1982

SIR: Geoffrey Hartman’s review (LRB, 21 October 1982) of Christopher Norris’s fine book Deconstruction: Theory and Practice is even more instructive than the book he reviews. Its history of the filiations between the old and the new Yale is not one I am inclined to deconstruct, any more than I am to honour the title. If the ‘Yale School’ is wild or fierce, that is the problem either of its...

Michi and Meiji

Nobuko Albery, 24 July 1986

I once received this stern admonition from an English editor: ‘If you intend to be a Japanese novelist whom we are translating into English, okay – I accept your manuscript as it is...

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