Veering : A Theory of Literature.

By:

Royle, Nicholas

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748636556

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: VeeringDDC classification:

801.95

LOC classification:

PN441 -- .R69 2011eb

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Contents:

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Advertisement -- Chapter 1 Casting Off -- Chapter 2 Reading a Novel -- Chapter 3 Reading a Poem -- Chapter 4 Drama: An Aside -- Chapter 5 The Essay: A Note (On Being Late) -- Chapter 6 On Critical and Creative Writing -- Chapter 7 The Literary Turn -- Chapter 8 Veerer: Where Ghosts Live -- Chapter 9 Veerer: Reading Melville's 'Bartleby' -- Chapter 10 Veering with Lawrence -- Appendix: A Note on Nodism -- Index.

Summary: Reflections on the figure of veering form the basis for a new theory of literature. Exploring images of swerving, loss of control, digressing and deviating, Veering provides new critical perspectives on all major literary genres: the novel, poetry, drama, the short story and the essay, as well as 'creative writing'. Royle works with insights from Lewis Carroll, Freud, Adorno, Raymond Williams, Edward Said, Deleuze, Cixous and Derrida. With wit and irony he investigates 'veering' in the writings of Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Melville, Hardy, Proust, Lawrence, Bowen, J.H. Prynne and many others. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life, Royle brilliantly traces a strange but compelling 'literary turn'.

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Reflections on the figure of veering form the basis for a new theory of literature. Exploring images of swerving, loss of control, digressing and deviating, Veering provides new critical perspectives on all major literary genres: the novel, poetry, drama, the short story and the essay, as well as 'creative writing'. Royle works with insights from Lewis Carroll, Freud, Adorno, Raymond Williams, Edward Said, Deleuze, Cixous and Derrida. With wit and irony he investigates 'veering' in the writings of Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Melville, Hardy, Proust, Lawrence, Bowen, J.H. Prynne and many others. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life, Royle brilliantly traces a strange but compelling 'literary turn'.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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