Literature, In Theory Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities

by Wolfreys, Julian

• ISBN13: 9781441161529
• ISBN10: 144116152X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A significant work of original thought addressing the interface between literature and theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword, in lieu of an introduction 1. Toward a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: Dickens's Examples 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 Brontë 4. Contested Grounds: Historical, Epistemological and Political Identities in Victorian 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 Dubliners 8. ‘A self-referential density': Glyph, Fictions of Transgression and the ‘Theory' Thing 9. ‘Theory' and 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 avoidance of reading 13. ‘The strong dead return': Harold Bloom's Daemonic Shades 14. Face to Face with Giorgio Agamben or, the other in love 15. Responsibilities of J or, Aphorism's Other: Criticism's Transformation Bibliography Index