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The English Literature Companion

By: Julian Wolfreys

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The English Literature Companion

By: Julian Wolfreys

What does it mean to study English Literature? Have can you navigate and get the most from your degree? The English Literature Companion is your comprehensive introduction to, and exploration of, the discipline of English and Literary Studies. It is your advisor on key decisions, and your one-stop reference source throughout the course. It combines: - A wide-ranging introduction to the nature, breadth and key components of the study of English Literature - Essays by experts in the field on key topics, periods and critical approaches - A glossary of critical terms and a chronology of literary history - Guidance about study skills, from using your time effectively to the practical mechanics of writing essays - Extensive signposting to wider reading and further sources of information - Advice on key decisions taken during a degree and on subsequent career direction and further study Giving you the foundation and resources you need for success in English Literature, this book is essential pre-course reading and will be an invaluable reference resource throughout your degree.

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0230365558

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9780230365551

Being English

Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Being English

Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

By: Julian Wolfreys

Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.

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SUNY Press

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0791421015

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9780791421017

The J. Hillis Miller Reader

By: Joseph Hillis Miller,Julian Wolfreys

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The J. Hillis Miller Reader

By: Joseph Hillis Miller,Julian Wolfreys

This anthology exhibits the diversity, inventiveness, and intellectual energy of the writings of J. Hillis Miller, the most significant North American literary critic of the twentieth century. From the 1950s onward, Miller has made invaluable contributions to our understanding of the practice and theory of literary criticism, the ethics and responsibilities of teaching and reading, and the role of literature in the modern world. He has also shown successive generations of scholars and students the necessity of comprehending the relationship between philosophy and literature. Divided into six sections, the volume provides more than twenty significant extracts from Millers works. In addition, there is a new interview with Miller, as well as a series of specially commissioned critical responses to Millers work by a number of the leading figures in literary and cultural studies today. Following a comprehensive critical introduction by the editor, each section has a brief introduction, directing the reader toward pertinent themes. There is also a comprehensive bibliography and a chronology of Millers professional life and activities. This reader, the first of Miller's work in English, provides an indispensable overview and introduction to one of the most original critical voices to have emerged since the inception of the teaching of English and American literature in universities in the English-speaking world.

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Stanford University Press

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0804750564

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Dickens's London

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Dickens's London

By: Julian Wolfreys

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748656057

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Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884

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

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884

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

By: Julian Wolfreys

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 modernity, national identity and their understanding of 'becoming historical' in distinction from that of previous generations. He offers illuminating close readings of texts and examines narratives set in a recent past in order to investigate the role of cultural memory in the making of identity. Also featuring a helpful Chronology and an Annotated Bibliography to aid further study, this stimulating guide encourages readers to reassess the work of key writers of the nineteenth century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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113708619X

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Transgression

Identity, Space, Time

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Transgression

Identity, Space, Time

By: Julian Wolfreys

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.

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1350309850

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Literary Theories

A Case Study in Critical Performance

By: William Baker,Julian Wolfreys

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Literary Theories

A Case Study in Critical Performance

By: William Baker,Julian Wolfreys

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical application, plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings. Clearly argued and lucidly written, these essays offer the student reader an interactive introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary theories challenge us to rethink interpretation, literary writing and critical reading.

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1349250287

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Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

By: 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 - Gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension - Supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed - Offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address - Provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.

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0230629407

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Transgression

Identity, Space, Time

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Transgression

Identity, Space, Time

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Being English

Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

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Being English

Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

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Writing London

Volume 3: Inventions of the City

By: J. Wolfreys

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Writing London

Volume 3: Inventions of the City

By: J. Wolfreys

This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .

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Springer

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0230591949

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The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance

Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida

By: Julian Wolfreys

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The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance

Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida

By: Julian Wolfreys

In this wide-ranging, challenging theoretical study, Julian Wolfreys offers close readings of films, novels and poetry in order to draw attention to the ways in which texts resist acts of reading by performing their own idiomatic, wayward identities. Looking at the construction of identity in Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Maya Deren, Sylvie Germain, Jacques Derrida, Michel Deguy, and George Eliot, Wolfreys asks the reader to reassess the textual performance of identity by attending to a rhetoric which is simultaneously both resistant to mastery and affirmative of dissonance.

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1349256994

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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture

1800–Present

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture

1800–Present

By: Julian Wolfreys

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 phenomenology. The volume explores writing and culture from the 1880s to the present day, proceeding through four sections examining related questions of identity, memory, the landscape, and our modern relationship to the past. Julian Wolfreys presents a theoretically informed understanding of the efficacy of literature and culture in connecting us to the past in an affective and engaged manner.

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3319980890

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Julia Margaret Cameron

The Complete Photographs

By: Julian Cox,Colin Ford

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Julia Margaret Cameron

The Complete Photographs

By: Julian Cox,Colin Ford

According to one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s great-nieces, “we never knew what Aunt Julia was going to do next, nor did anyone else.” This is an accurate summation of the life of the British photographer (1815–1879), who took up the camera at age forty-eight and made more than twelve hundred images during a fourteen-year career. Living at the height of the Victorian era, Cameron was anything but conventional, experimenting with the relatively new medium of photography, promoting her own art though exhibition and sale, and pursuing the eminent personalities of her age—Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, and others—as subjects for her lens. For the first time, all known images by Cameron, one of the most important nineteenth-century artists in any medium, are gathered together in a catalogue raisonné. In addition to a complete catalogue of Cameron’s photographs, there is information on her life and times, initial experiments, artistic aspirations, techniques, small-format images, albums, commercial strategies, sitters, and sources of inspiration. Also provided are a selected bibliography of publications on Cameron, a list of exhibitions of her work held both in her time as well as our own, and a summary of important collections where her pictures can be found.

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Getty Publications

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0892366818

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Dickens's London

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Dickens's London

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This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

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Edinburgh University Press

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Literature, In Theory

Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Literature, In Theory

Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities

By: Julian Wolfreys

A significant work of original thought addressing the interface between literature and theory. >

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1441123245

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Writing London

The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens

By: J. Wolfreys

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Writing London

The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens

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Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various literary modes of productions as responses to the city. Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary representations and responses to the city, Writing London follows the shaping of the urban consciousness from Blake to Dickens, through Shelley, Barbauld, Byron, De Quincey, Engels and Wordsworth. It concludes with an Afterword which, in developing insights into the relationship between writing and the city, questions the heritage industry's reinvention of London, while arguing for a new understanding of the urban spirit.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312214529

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9780312214524

Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660

By: Marion Wynne-Davies,Julian Wolfreys

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Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660

By: Marion Wynne-Davies,Julian Wolfreys

This invaluable guide offers readers an accessible and imaginative approach to the literature of early modern Britain. Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of the period, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing a helpful introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well-known authors. Amongst other things, Wynne-Davies discusses sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry in its political and cultural contexts, considers Renaissance drama in terms of performance space, and uses the early modern map to explain the prose works of writers such as Bunyan and Cavendish.

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1403937923

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9781403937926

Thinking Difference

Critics in Conversation

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Thinking Difference

Critics in Conversation

By: Julian Wolfreys

Differencehas been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy.In projects ranging from deconstructive readings of canonical texts to a radical rethinking of the sacred, differencehas been the node around which theorists have explored questions of conflict, power, identity, meaning, and knowledge itself in postmodern culture. At this point, what difference does differencemake?In this imaginatively conceived book, Julian Wolfreys talks to thirteen leading scholars about the place of differencein their own work, in their own fields, and in their teaching. How has intellectual engagement with difference-its celebration of otherness and opposition, whether in a work of art or in world politics-shaped teaching, reading, and writing in today's colleges and universities? And at a time when identity politics and cultural critique have been institutionalized by the academy, has differencebeen domesticated? Personal and revealing, these conversations come together as a kind of collective self-portrait of the humanities at one of its important junctures. 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 Kamuf, Avital Ronell, Arkady Plotnitsky, John P. Leavey, Jr., Mary Ann Caws, Jonathan Culler, Gregory L. Ulmer, J. Hillis Miller, John D. Caputo, Kevin Hart, and Werner HamacherPreface Introduction: As If I Were Teaching, in ConversationJulian Wolfreys et al.1. Nicholas Royle The Beginning Is Haunted: Teaching and the Uncanny2. Derek Attridge Encountering the Other in the Classroom3. Peggy Kamuf Symptoms of Response4. Avital Ronell (as interviewed by D. Diane Davis)Confessions of an Anacoluthon: On Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, and Politics5. Arkady Plotnitsky Difference beyond Difference6. John P. Leavey, Jr.Q&A: Whims, Whim-Whams, Whimsies, and the ResponsivebleInterview7. Mary Ann Caws Thinking about This . . . 8. Jonathan Culler Resisting Resistance9. Kevin Hart Going to University with Socrates10. John D. Caputo In Praise of Devilish Hermeneutics11. Gregory L. Ulmer A-mail: Differential Imaging12. J. Hillis Miller The Degree Zero of Criticism13. Werner Hamacher To Leave the Word to Someone Else

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823223086

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9780823223084

Key Concepts in Literary Theory

By: Prof. Julian Wolfreys

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Key Concepts in Literary Theory

By: Prof. Julian Wolfreys

Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies.The volume also provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory, supported by bibliographies and an expanded chronology of major thinkers. Accompanying the chronology are short biographies of major works by each critic or theorist.The new edition of this reliable reference work is both revised and expanded, including:* More than 70 additional terms and concepts defined, from Absurdism and Aga Saga to Writerly texts and Zeugma.* Newly defined terms include keywords from the social sciences, cultural studies and psychoanalysis and the addition of a broader selection of classical rhetorical terms.* An expanded chronology, with additional entries and a broader historical and cultural range, from Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel, to Camille Paglia and bell hooks.* Expanded bibliographies including key texts by major critics.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748626425

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9780748626427

Key Concepts in Literary Theory

By: Julian Wolfreys,Ruth Robbins,Kenneth Womack

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Key Concepts in Literary Theory

By: Julian Wolfreys,Ruth Robbins,Kenneth Womack

Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonialliterary studies.The volume also provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory, supported by bibliographies and an expanded chronology of major thinkers. Accompanying the chronology are short biographies of major works by each critic or theorist.The new edition of this reliable reference work is both revised and expanded, including:* More than 70 additional terms and concepts defined, from Absurdism and Aga Saga to Writerly texts and Zeugma.* Newly defined terms include keywords from the social sciences, cultural studies and psychoanalysisand the addition of a broader selection of classical rhetorical terms.* An expanded chronology, with additional entries and a broader historical and cultural range, from Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel, to Camille Paglia and bell hooks. Expanded bibliographies including key texts by majorcritics.

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0748624589

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9780748624584

Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Twentieth-Century Nationalisms

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Twentieth-Century Nationalisms

By: Julian Wolfreys

Gale Researcher Guide for: Early Twentieth-Century Nationalisms is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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Gale, Cengage Learning

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1535853212

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9781535853217

The Old Story, with a Difference

Pickwick's Vision

By: Julian Wolfreys

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The Old Story, with a Difference

Pickwick's Vision

By: Julian Wolfreys

The Old Story, with a Difference: Pickwick's Vision explores in radically different ways from most approaches to nineteenth-century studies the tropes and metaphors of vision in Dickens' first novel, The Pickwick Papers. Julian Wolfreys provides a close reading of Dickens' Pickwick Papers and argues that this novel is an exemplary text for the re-consideration of concepts such as literature, history, the novel, and the whole notion of Victorian studies. True to the purpose of the Victorian Critical Interventions Series, Wolfreys challenges scholars to rethink the use of a canonical text in Victorian literature. Challenging the commonplaces of historicist criticism, and demonstrating the need for a return to close reading, The Old Story, with a Difference presents a reading of the novel grounded in the twinned rigors of materialist historiography and theoretical inflections tending toward attentiveness to epistemological and linguistic concerns. Through such an orientation, Wolfreys unpacks the relation between the tropes of visuality and matters of memory, history, and the necessity of fiction to bear witness to the cultures, past and present, from which literature becomes generated and which it mediates. In doing so, he situates an argument for rethinking Dickens' novel as the inaugural novel of Victorian fiction par excellence, in that novel's efforts to remain open to the traces of the past in particular ways. The Old Story, with a Difference holds profound implications for the study not only of Dickens' works but Victorian literature and culture in general. Provocative and inventive, this ambitious analysis will challenge, goad, and invite the reader to return to acts of materialist reading informed by ethical and ideological urgency, rather than relapsing into the commonplaces of humanist cliché.

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Ohio State University Press

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081421021X

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9780814210215

Silent Music

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Silent Music

By: Julian Wolfreys

In Silent Music, Julian Wolfreys (noted academic with a passion for the three languages of words, music and the imagination) brings together a group of musicians and Annagreth, a young German 'blow-in', in the uncomfortable dreamscape of the Isle of Wight in the late 1970s.

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Triarchy Press

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1909470422

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Souvenirs D'amour

Love and the Mnemotechnic of Alterity

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Souvenirs D'amour

Love and the Mnemotechnic of Alterity

By: Julian Wolfreys

Julien Wolfreys presents a philisophical engagement with love and memory. Derrida, Heidegger, Cixous and others are elaborated through ruined scraps of letters and fragments.

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