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Veering : a theory of literature / Nicholas Royle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royle, Nicholas, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Frontiers of theory.
- The frontiers of theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring images of swerving loss of control digressing and deviating 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.
- Contents:
- Casting off
- Reading a novel
- Reading a poem
- Drama: an aside
- The essay: a note (on being late)
- On critical and creative writing
- The literary turn
- Veerer: where ghosts live
- Veerer: reading Melville's 'Bartleby' A small case of civil disobedience
- Veering with Lawrence.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5390-2
- 0-7486-5230-2
- 1-283-37005-0
- 9786613370051
- 0-7486-3655-2
- OCLC:
- 818853393
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