 | Joseph Hillis Miller - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 430 pages
...frontier zone without either peaceful homeland, in one direction, land of hosts and domesticity, or, in the other direction, any alien land of hostile strangers, "beyond the line." The place we inhabit, wherever we are, is always this in-between zone, place of host and parasite,... | |
 | Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 424 pages
..."prisonhouse of language" were like that universe finite but unbounded which some modern cosmologies posit. One may move everywhere freely within this enclosure...homeland, in one direction, land of hosts and domesticity, or, in the other direction, any alien land of hostile strangers, "beyond the line." The place we inhabit,... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 470 pages
...'prisonhouse oflanguage' were like that universe finite but unbounded which some modem cosmologies posit. One may move everywhere freely within this enclosure...alien land of hostile strangers, 'beyond the line.' The place we inhabit, wherever we are, is always this in-between zone, place of host and parasite,... | |
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... beyond the line." The place we inhabit, wherever we are, is always this inbetween zone, place of host and parasite, neither inside nor outside. It is a region of the Unheimlich, beyond any formalism, which reforms itself wherever we are, if we know... 