Title: Literature, in theory : tropes, subjectivities, responses & responsibilities /
Authors: Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.
Abstract: "By examining how 'theory' and 'literature' are concepts and names which touch on one another in complex ways, Julian Wolfreys seeks to understand their intersections and differences, taking the reader on a journey through the issues and ideas involved in reading literature, in theory."--Jacket.
Contents: Toward a phenomenology of urban Gothic: the example of Dickens -- Houses, homes, rooms and tombs: the unhomely spaces and monstrous economies of Dombey and Son -- In visibility, or the appearance of "true histories": truth, confession and revelation in Anne Brontë -- Contested grounds: historical, epistemological and political identities in nineteenth-century literature -- (Sub) urbi it orbi: the "little worlds" of London, or fear, whimsy and singularity -- Professions: of English diaspora? -- No, not, none, nothing, nobody: place, pattern, death and narratives of negation in Dub liners -- "A self-referential density": Glyph, fictions of transgression and the "theory" thing -- "Theory" & the novel (and The Novel?) -- Ghosts: of ourselves, or drifting with Hardy and Heidegger -- The reiterable circularity of being: poetics, selfhood and the singular witness that is "I" -- Teaching Derrida: "but just a minute, before we begin, a preface of sorts (after the event), a defence, apologia, apalogue ... ; and other responses in the face of (yet another) programmed avoidance of reading -- "The strong dead return": Harold Bloom's daemonic shades -- Face to face with Agamben, or the other in love -- Responsibilities of J, or aphorism's other: criticism's transformation.