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Veering: A Theory of Literature

By Nicholas Royle

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780748636556
DOI
10.1515/9780748636556
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1508603 bytes)
Pages
232\232
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 01:56:24

Description

Reflections on the figure of veering form the basis for a new theory of literatureExploring 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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