Literature, in theory : tropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities / Julian Wolfreys.

By: Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. Description: xiii, 306 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781441161529; 144116152X; 9781441123244 (pbk.); 1441123245 (pbk.)Subject(s): Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Literatuurtheorie | LiteratuurkritiekDDC classification: 801.95 LOC classification: PN441 | .W65 2010Other classification: 17.80 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents only | Publisher description | WorldCat details

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	801.95 WOL 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		24184
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Circulation Section	Non-fiction	801.95 WOL 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Available		24185

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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.

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.

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