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Deconstruction - Derrida

Deconstruction - Derrida

Julian Wolfreys

In this introduction to the work of Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys challenges the notion that what Derrida does can be turned into a theory for literary interpretation.
Occasional Deconstructions

Occasional Deconstructions

Julian Wolfreys

In Occasional Deconstructions, Julian Wolfreys challenges the notion that deconstruction is a critical methodology, offering instead a number of reintroductions or reorientations to the texts of Jacques Derrida and the idea or possibility ...
Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal ...

Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal ...

Julian Wolfreys

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys Volumes available in the series: In Lady Audley's Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres Saverio Tomaiuolo 978 0 7486 4115 4 Hbk Blasted ...
Key Concepts in Literary Theory

Key Concepts in Literary Theory

Julian Wolfreys

This is a must-read for any student wishing to improve his or her critical writing.
Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses & ...

Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses & ...

Julian Wolfreys

A significant work of original thought addressing the interface between literature and theory. >
The English Literature Companion

The English Literature Companion

Julian Wolfreys

Thanks are also due to Bill Overton, Brian Jarvis and Nick Freeman for invaluable thoughts on a particular section of the volume; I would particularly like to thank Nick for suggesting I define 'deconstruction' one more time in my career, even ...
Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and ...

Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and ...

Julian Wolfreys

Victorian Hauntings should bring a new tone to Victorian Studies, this clever book is quite perfect.
Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century

Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century

Julian Wolfreys

This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century.
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature

Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature

Robbie McLaughlan

Wolfreys' thesis is supported by Peter Buse and Andrew Stott, who similarly identify literature as the site par excellence of ghostly 'hauntings': '[l]iterature has always been a more accommodating place for ghosts, perhaps because fiction itself ...
Subjectivity

Subjectivity

Ruth Robbins

Ruth Robbins. transitions General Editor: Julian Wolfreys Published Titles TERRYEAGLETON David Alderson JULIA KRISTEVA AND LITERARYTHEORY Megan Becker-Leckrone BATAILLE Fred Botting and Scott Wilson NEW ...
Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation

Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation

Julian Wolfreys

Thinking Difference offers provocative reflections on what ideas and practices will drive the next generation of critical thinking.Here are original conversations on the career of a key concept with: Nicholas Royle, Derek Attridge, Peggy ...
Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City

Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City

J. Wolfreys

Edward Mendelson and Robert Squillace. London: 1991. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound. Ed. and introd. Valerie Eliot. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1971. ix ...
J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: ...

J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: ...

Eamonn Dunne

Notes. Preface. 1. For an insightful essay on this topic see also “How About a Game of Tennis?” by Megan Becker-Leckrone in The J. Hillis Miller Reader ed. Julian Wolfreys (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), pp. 289–294.
Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Julian Wolfreys

This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today.
Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Julian Wolfreys

This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today.
Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions

Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions

Trish Ferguson

... Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity Julian Wolfreys 978 0 7486 4040 9 Hbk Re-Imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature Robbie McLaughlan 978 0 7486 4715 6 Hbk Roomscape: Women Readers in the British  ...
London's Underground Spaces

London's Underground Spaces

Haewon Hwang

... Hbk Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity Julian Wolfreys 9780 7486 4040 9 Hbk ReImagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature Robbie McLaughlan 9780 7486 47156 Hbk Roomscape: ...
The J. Hillis Miller Reader

The J. Hillis Miller Reader

Joseph Hillis Miller

Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys. practice of reading. It is this modernism that led us to a discovery that we live in the unfigurable (un)universe, the un-universe of the unfigurable, invoked by Blanchot, who also asks: But will [man] ever be ...
Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George ...

Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George ...

Susan David Bernstein

... Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity Julian Wolfreys 978 0 7486 4040 9 Hbk Re-Imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature Robbie McLaughlan 978 0 7486 4715 6 Hbk Roomscape: Women Readers in the British  ...

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