tropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities Wolfreys, Julian 1958- creator text bibliography enk London New York Continuum c2010 2010 monographic eng

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xiii, 306 p. ; 24 cm. 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. TOC 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. general Julian Wolfreys. Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-299) and index. English Literature History and criticism Theory, etc Literatuurtheorie Literatuurkritiek PN441 .W65 2010 801.95 WOL 2010 17.80 9781441161529 144116152X 9781441123244 (pbk.) 1441123245 (pbk.) 2010279397 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2010279397-d.html http://www.worldcat.org/title/literature-in-theory-tropes-subjectivities-responses-responsibilities/oclc/432983194&referer=brief_results http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2010279397-d.html http://www.worldcat.org/title/literature-in-theory-tropes-subjectivities-responses-responsibilities/oclc/432983194&referer=brief_results UKM 100518 20190108101844.0 6884 eng