Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One. The ethics of reading -- 1. ''J'' Is for Jouissance -- 2. Broadening the Horizon: On J. Hillis Miller's Ananarratology -- 3. Finding the Zumbah: An Analysis of Infelicity in Speech Acts in Literature -- 4. Between ''the Cup and the Lip'': Retroactive Constructions of Inheritance in Our Mutual Friend -- 5. Hillis's Charity -- Part Two. The politics of form -- 6. ''J''; or, Hillis le mal -- 7. The Afterlife of Judaism: The Zohar, Benjamin, Miller -- 8. On the Line -- 9. War on Terror -- 10. American Literary Studies and American Cultural Studies in the Times of the National Emergency: J's Paradoxes -- Part Three. Justices -- 11. ''J'' Is for Just a Minute: It's Miller Time When It Shimmers -- 12. Three Literary Theorists in Search of 0 -- 13. Justices -- Notes -- Index