Veering: A Theory of Literature

Brilliantly traces a strange but compelling 'literary turn'
Exploring 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.

Author: Nicholas Royle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 10/12/2012
Series: Frontiers of Theory
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780748655083