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October 16, 2019 • 17:37 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
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Which of the following sociologists? ideas on the practice of receiving and giving gifts are used by J.

Hiller to reinforce her arguments in the essay, Critic as Host ?

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    J Hillis Miller, the Yale critic published his the Critic As Host in response to M H Abram's lecture the Deconstructive Angel that criticized deconstruction and the methods of Miller. 'The Critic as Host,' is an elaborate reply to the charge that 'deconstructors' are nothing but 'parasites' upon the plain meanings of texts. Miller begins his paper with a quote from Thackeray's novel Henry Esmond. This quote demonstrates the complex relationship between the parasite and the host.
    Miller uses the practice of gift-giving and gift-receiving which Marcel Mauss had analyzed in his essay 'The Gift'.

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