03125cam a2200385 a 45000010005000000030009000050050017000140080041000310100017000720200018000890200015001070200025001220200022001470350021001690400040001900410008002300500021002380820021002590840015002801000029002952450102003242600045004263000027004715040066004985051291005645200316018555260012021716500052021836500028022356500028022638560106022918560092023978560091024898560159025806884BD-DhEWU20190108101844.0100518s2010 enk g b 001 0 eng d a 2010279397 a9781441161529 a144116152X a9781441123244 (pbk.) a1441123245 (pbk.) a(OCoLC)432983194 aUKMcUKMdBTCTAdDLCdBD-DhEWUbeng aeng00aPN441b.W65 201004a801.95bWOL 2010 a17.802bcl1 aWolfreys, Julian,d1958-10aLiterature, in theory :btropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities /cJulian Wolfreys. aLondon ;aNew York :bContinuum,cc2010. axiii, 306 p. ;c24 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-299) and index. tTOCaToward 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 Brontèˆ -- 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. aSummary: "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. aEnglish 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticismxTheory, etc.17aLiteratuurtheorie.2gtt17aLiteratuurkritiek.2gtt423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-b.html413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-t.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2010279397-d.html423WorldCat detailsuhttp://www.worldcat.org/title/literature-in-theory-tropes-subjectivities-responses-responsibilities/oclc/432983194&referer=brief_results