Theory Now and ThenTheory Now and Then contains the more overtly theoretical essays by J. Hillis Miller published between 1966 and 1989. These essays trace the trajectory of theory over the last thirty years in the United States: from the Continental Shift announced in the Yale Colloquium of 1965, through Millers assimilation of the work of the Geneva Critics, to the shift to that deconstruction in America in which Miller played a conspicuous role. Included here are