Veering : : A Theory of Literature / / Nicholas Royle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Royle, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

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’.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Advertisement -- 1. Casting Off -- 2. Reading a Novel -- 3. Reading a Poem -- 4. Drama: An Aside -- 5. The Essay: A Note (On Being Late) -- 6. On Critical and Creative Writing -- 7. The Literary Turn -- 8. Veerer: Where Ghosts Live -- 9. Veerer: Reading Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ -- 10. Veering with Lawrence -- Appendix: A Note on Nodism -- Index