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  • Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture

    1800–Present

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach grounded in close reading, the text places Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality in dialogue with particular aspects of ... Read more

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  • Haunted Experience

    Being, Loss, Memory

    Julian Wolfreys starts with loss. All memory is the memory of loss…All that we are, all we experience, all we remember, all that we forget but which leaves nevertheless a trace on us, in us, a trace that countersigns and writes us as who we are (in effect the constellated matrix of Being’s becoming): this is a process of loss. This just is loss. Loss is who we are.Loss is authentically the ... Read more

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  • Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884

    The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century

    Series series Transitions
    This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by:- Charles Dickens- Elizabeth Gaskell- Wilkie Collins- George Eliot- Thomas Hardy.Wolfreys explores the novelists' constructions of ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Literary Theory

    This book provides students with lucid and authoritative definitions of some of the most significant terms and concepts employed in the study of literary theory. It offers 250 terms from many areas of literary theory, including cultural studies, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, Marxist and feminist studies, postcolonialism, and other areas of identity politics. In addition, it provides ... Read more

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  • Victorian Hauntings

    Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature

    Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such "ghost writing" surface in the works of ... Read more

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  • Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

    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- Gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and ... Read more

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  • Transgression

    Identity, Space, Time

    Series series Transitions
    Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time. ... Read more

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  • The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature

    Edited by Monika Szuba, Julian Wolfreys ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience. Major genres and forms are discussed, and authors as diverse as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen ... Read more

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