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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459113503321

Autore

Wolfreys Julian <1958->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-87629-5

9786612876295

1-4411-8230-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

801.95

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword, in Lieu of an Introduction; 1 Toward a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: The Example of Dickens; 2 Houses, Homes, Rooms and Tombs: The Unhomely Spaces and Monstrous Economies of Dombey and Son; 3 In Visibility, or the Appearance of 'True Histories': Truth, Confession and Revelation in Anne Brontèˆ; 4 Contested Grounds: Historical, Epistemological and Political Identities in Nineteenth-Century Literature; 5 (Sub) Urbi et Orbi: The 'Little Worlds' of London, or, Fear, Whimsy and Singularity; 6 Professions: Of English Diaspora?

7 No, Not, None, Nothing, Nobody: Place, Pattern, Death and Narratives of Negation in Dubliners8 'A self-referential density': Glyph, Fictions of Transgression and the 'Theory' Thing; 9 'Theory' & the novel (and The Novel?); 10 Ghosts: Of Ourselves, or, Drifting with Hardy and Heidegger; 11 The Reiterable Circularity Of Being: Poetics, Selfhood and the Singular Witness that is 'I'; 12 Teaching Derrida: 'but just a minute, before we begin, a preface of sorts (after the event), a defence, apologia, apologue . . .', and other responses in the face of (yet another) programmed avoida

13 'The strong dead return': Harold Bloom's Daemonic Shades14 Face



to Face with Agamben or, the Other in Love; 15 Responsibilities of J, or, Aphorism's Other: Criticism's Transformation; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names

Sommario/riassunto

Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its 'institution' is the right of literature to say anything. Literature cannot be defined as such, and as soon as one seeks to produce a reading of the literary, complications arise. . Yet despite its institutional significance, 'theory' remains something many wish would go away; and which, for others, is still not read, is misread, and remains to be read. Like literature, it remains as an enigmatic identity, resistant to definition, but subject to misperceptions and op