Veering : a theory of literature / [electronic resource]
Royle, Nicholas,1957-author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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.
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.
Criticism.
Literature, Modern