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Veering : a theory of literature / Nicholas Royle.
LIBRA PN81 .R695 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royle, Nicholas, 1957-
- Series:
- Frontiers of theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Exploring images of swerving, loss of control, digressing and deviating, Veering provides new critical perspectives on the novel, poetry, drama, the short story and the essay, as well as 'creative writing'. With wit and irony Royle investigates the figure of Veering' in the writings of Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Melville, Hardy, Proust, Lawrence, Bowen, J.H. Prynne and many others. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Casting Off 1
- 2 Reading a Novel 13
- 3 Reading a Poem 34
- 4 Drama: An Aside 54
- 5 The Essay: A Note (On Being Late) 61
- 6 On Critical and Creative Writing 67
- 7 The Literary Turn 92
- 8 Veerer: Where Ghosts Live 119
- 9 Veerer: Reading Melville's 'Bartleby' 151
- A Small Case of Civil Disobedience 175
- 10 Veering with Lawrence 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0748636544
- 9780748636549
- OCLC:
- 506174467
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