TY - BOOK AU - Wolfreys,Julian TI - Literature, in theory: tropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities SN - 9781441161529 AV - PN441 .W65 2010 U1 - 801.95 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Literatuurtheorie KW - gtt KW - Literatuurkritiek N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-299) and index; 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; English N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2010279397-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2010279397-d.html UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/literature-in-theory-tropes-subjectivities-responses-responsibilities/oclc/432983194&referer=brief_results ER -