Literature, in theory :
Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
Literature, in theory : tropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities / Julian Wolfreys. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. - xiii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-299) and index.
Toward a phenomenology of urban Gothic: the example of Dickens --
Houses, homes, rooms and tombs: the unhomely spaces and monstrous economies of Dombey and Son --
In visibility, or the appearance of "true histories": truth, confession and revelation in Anne Brontë --
Contested grounds: historical, epistemological and political identities in nineteenth-century literature --
(Sub) urbi it orbi: the "little worlds" of London, or fear, whimsy and singularity --
Professions: of English diaspora? --
No, not, none, nothing, nobody: place, pattern, death and narratives of negation in Dub liners --
"A self-referential density": Glyph, fictions of transgression and the "theory" thing --
"Theory" & the novel (and The Novel?) --
Ghosts: of ourselves, or drifting with Hardy and Heidegger --
The reiterable circularity of being: poetics, selfhood and the singular witness that is "I" --
Teaching Derrida: "but just a minute, before we begin, a preface of sorts (after the event), a defence, apologia, apalogue ... ; and other responses in the face of (yet another) programmed avoidance of reading --
"The strong dead return": Harold Bloom's daemonic shades --
Face to face with Agamben, or the other in love --
Responsibilities of J, or aphorism's other: criticism's transformation. TOC
Summary:
"By examining how 'theory' and 'literature' are concepts and names which touch on one another in complex ways, Julian Wolfreys seeks to understand their intersections and differences, taking the reader on a journey through the issues and ideas involved in reading literature, in theory."--BOOK JACKET.
9781441161529 144116152X 9781441123244 (pbk.) 1441123245 (pbk.)
2010279397
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literatuurtheorie.
Literatuurkritiek.
PN441 / .W65 2010
801.95 / WOL 2010
Literature, in theory : tropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities / Julian Wolfreys. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. - xiii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-299) and index.
Toward a phenomenology of urban Gothic: the example of Dickens --
Houses, homes, rooms and tombs: the unhomely spaces and monstrous economies of Dombey and Son --
In visibility, or the appearance of "true histories": truth, confession and revelation in Anne Brontë --
Contested grounds: historical, epistemological and political identities in nineteenth-century literature --
(Sub) urbi it orbi: the "little worlds" of London, or fear, whimsy and singularity --
Professions: of English diaspora? --
No, not, none, nothing, nobody: place, pattern, death and narratives of negation in Dub liners --
"A self-referential density": Glyph, fictions of transgression and the "theory" thing --
"Theory" & the novel (and The Novel?) --
Ghosts: of ourselves, or drifting with Hardy and Heidegger --
The reiterable circularity of being: poetics, selfhood and the singular witness that is "I" --
Teaching Derrida: "but just a minute, before we begin, a preface of sorts (after the event), a defence, apologia, apalogue ... ; and other responses in the face of (yet another) programmed avoidance of reading --
"The strong dead return": Harold Bloom's daemonic shades --
Face to face with Agamben, or the other in love --
Responsibilities of J, or aphorism's other: criticism's transformation. TOC
Summary:
"By examining how 'theory' and 'literature' are concepts and names which touch on one another in complex ways, Julian Wolfreys seeks to understand their intersections and differences, taking the reader on a journey through the issues and ideas involved in reading literature, in theory."--BOOK JACKET.
9781441161529 144116152X 9781441123244 (pbk.) 1441123245 (pbk.)
2010279397
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Literatuurtheorie.
Literatuurkritiek.
PN441 / .W65 2010
801.95 / WOL 2010