Nicholas Royle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 316580 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicholas Royle |
| NOMBRES | Nicholas |
| APELLIDO | Royle |
| FIRMA | ROYLE N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9130-3124 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Uncanny drift
What follows is a revised version of a text originally written to accompany a photography exhibition entitled Drift by Daniel Rapley. Rapley collected some 200,000 discarded 35 mm slides from house clearances and then created a series of pictures by ‘photographing slides stacked together on a light box’. The slides are anonymous: there is no information about any of the individuals who appear in them, or about who took the photographs in the firs…
Kafka’s The Trial , 100 Years On
Kafka and Lewis Carroll
Uncanny reminiscing
AO – How did you, yourself, begin to be in contact with the uncanny?1NR – A funny question! I imagine Laurence Sterne trying to answer it: From the moment of conception – no! – earlier!But in terms
The early reception of the Sun Machine
The Early Reception of the Sun Machine' focuses on Nicholas Royle's David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine (2023), exploring the early critical reception of the work alongside more philosophical questions: Why do we speak of 'reception' rather than 'effect', 'impact', 'understanding' or 'response to'?How might we elaborate and perhaps think differently about the concept of reception?The text engages with the nature of limits: it is at least…
Even the Plague Journal
These are the first published extracts of a Covid-19 diary, co-written over two years (2020–22). The authors are concerned to both record and analyse the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic altered the sense and experience of inside and outside, home and world, self and other. Grief—both personal and ecological—is uncircumventable. At the same time, the virus provokes critical thinking on how ‘another life is possible’. Literature and music are k…
Creative Critical
Elizabeth Bowen’s The Hotel
This essay is an exercise in the phenomenology – and post-phenomenology – of reading in relation to Elizabeth Bowen’s The Hotel (1927), a novel that thematizes and reflects on the uncanny status of reading and provokes in response an experimental critical ABC. Special attention is given to the work of French psychoanalyst Charles Baudouin in foregrounding the role and effects of suggestion in reading. Engaging with the concerns of writing and rea…
Commemoration and Autobiography
This piece seeks to explore notions of commemoration and autobiography with particular reference to the life and work of Laura Marcus. Special attention is given to her Auto/Biographical Discourses, Virginia Woolf and Autobiography, as well as Paul de Man’s essay ‘Autobiography as De-Facement’, the work of Jacques Derrida (in Mémoires: For Paul de Man and elsewhere), and Woolf’s ‘biography’, Orlando (1927)
Demon writing
This paper was presented as a keynote lecture at a conference on ‘Elizabeth Bowen: Blurring Boundaries’, organised by Nicola Darwood and Nick Turner at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, at the end of the morning, just before the scheduled lunch-break, on 8 June 2019. This was only the third time we have had the pleasure of giving a joint paper on Bowen. (Previous occasions were at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, in December 1996, and…
Freud's Roids
We Ourselves Speak a Language that is Foreign’
All Wards
Deconstruction and the Transcultural Uncanny
The focus of Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's ambitious, distinctive, and highly engaging book Thinking Literature across Continents1 is nothing less than the world (the meaning of “the world” and what is happening to it, above all from the perspective of people involved in education, whether teaching or being taught), together with that seemingly familiar yet peculiar, elusive thing called literature. There are many differences between what G…
Quicksand
This essay explores the nature of the word and concept of "quicksand" across a range of texts and contexts, including the Book of Genesis, Daniel Defoe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, Nella Larsen, Maurice Blanchot, Margaret Atwood, David Bowie, and Bear Grylls. Particular attention is given to Jacques Derrida's "Living On: Borderlines" and The Beast and the Sovereign
The Dark Heart
‘The Dark Heart’ is an original short story. The author comments: ‘I have long been intrigued by B. S. Johnson’s approach to writing The Unfortunates , a novel in a box with chapters that were designed to be read in any order, apart from the first and last chapters, which were fixed. However, while I would appear to have followed his example with “The Dark Heart”, in which the sections may be read in any order, apart from the opening and closing …
Dream Treatment
This text seeks to analyse a dream in which Freud writes to the author. Particular attention is given to the notion of treatment and, in a memorable phrase from Hélène Cixous, 'how to treat the dream as a dream'. Royle draws on diverse references (Donald Trump, Hugh Laurie, Howard Jacobson, Wallace Stevens, Jacques Derrida and Cixous), and focuses on a range of Freud's writings (a letter to Thomas Mann, The Interpretation of Dreams, 'A Disturbanc…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Podiatry Conversion Course
This text offers a preliminary exploration of the relations between philosophy, psychoanalysis, telepathy and podiatry
The Abnormal Day of This World’
Invited to speak in Iceland on the topic of ‘psychoanalysis and the university’, at a conference entitled ‘Psychoanalysis on Ice’, on 9 October 2014, I had to say yes. Ten years to the day after his death: I can hear him already. . . As he says of Paul de Man, at the end of ‘Typewriter Ribbon: Limited Ink (2)’: ‘I am so sad that Paul de Man is not here himself to answer me and to object. But I can hear him already—and sooner or later his text wil…
Quick Fiction
Nicholas Royle delivered the following lecture in Winnipeg on 22 October 2013, in connection with his Mosaic -sponsored Distinguished Visiting Lecturer visit to the University of Manitoba. Mosaic is pleased to publish the lecture here
Reading Joseph Conrad
Delivered as a lecture at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, in March 2013, on the eve of the second anniversary of "the events," as Royle's host called them, this essay is, in part, about Fukushima. It focuses in a timely/untimely way on Conrad's remarkable story "Typhoon." The essay also connects to various themes raised in the preceding "Quick Fictions" lecture, including in particular the notion of quick fiction
Going to Bits
Royle's essay explores ‘world’ and ‘fiction’ in the final session (26 March 2003) of Jacques Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign with particular reference to notions of the poetic or poematic, war and non-world, wound and debridement, the mouth, non-human animals, the gothic, being born, grammar and aposiopesis
A reassessment of Elizabeth Bowen'sFriends and Relations
This essay proposes a re-reading of Elizabeth Bowen's largely overlooked third novel, Friends and Relations. Focussing on effects such as stammering, bathos, narrative catastrophe, narrative voice and non-human animals, allows for a proper appreciation of the radical possibilities that are opened up within Bowen's innovative narrative form
Introduction to 'Elizabeth Bowen and textual modernity
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century
Hotel Psychoanalysis
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Introduction to 'Elizabeth Bowen and textual modernity
A reassessment of Elizabeth Bowen'sFriends and Relations
This essay proposes a re-reading of Elizabeth Bowen's largely overlooked third novel, Friends and Relations. Focussing on effects such as stammering, bathos, narrative catastrophe, narrative voice and non-human animals, allows for a proper appreciation of the radical possibilities that are opened up within Bowen's innovative narrative form
Miracle Play
This text considers the notion of miracle in relation to the writings of Shakespeare and Derrida. Royle shows how the word ‘miracle’ (and cognates including ‘miraculous’) comes, in the later sixteenth century, to acquire less narrowly religious senses, and how this dehiscence is at play in Shakespeare, especially in the figure of Falstaff, in Henry IV Part One. He explores some of the ways in which the history and development of the ‘miraculous’ …
Telepathies
Away
Yes, Yes, the University in Ruins
The Distraction of ‘Freud’
Telepathy
Telepathy
Nuclear Piece
The Distraction of ‘Freud’
Abeyances
That when there is thought there has to be something ‘that thinks’ is simply a formulation of our grammatical custom that adds a doer to every deed. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Shivered
‘Still Lives’ is, among other things, an oxymoron. It strangely mixes stillness and movement. In the first place it concerns what is without life or motion (‘still’) but is, nevertheless, animate or moving (that which ‘lives’). But there is a further strangeness and mobility within the word ‘still’ itself. For ‘still’ never settles into one determination or another, whether as adjective, adverb, noun or verb. It never settles, for example, into b…
Trance
What makes the ‘miracle’ of reading ... even more singular is that here the stone and the tomb not only contain a cadaverous emptiness that must be animated, but they also constitute the presence — hidden though it is — of what must appear. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Fanatic Immobility
For the writer, writing is eventful; one might say it is in itself eventfulness. More than any activity, it involves thought, but the thought involved in it is by nature captive, specialized and intense. ... Reading is eventful also. It, too, engages the faculties, so closely that reflection is only possible when the book has been finished and put down. At a first reading one has little but reflexes. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not…
Sheer Kink
Daniel George, who read the novel in manuscript for Cape, wrote about her characteristic contortion — at its most noticeable in this novel — in his report. So far from seeing it as affected, or deliberately high-flown, he saw it as the extreme of colloquialism: she wrote so colloquially, he said, ‘that unless the reader is lucky enough to coincide with her in placing a stress on the key word of a sentence, he may be baffled completely’. 1 These k…
Convulsions
The word ‘convulsive’, which I use to describe the only beauty which should concern us, would lose any meaning in my eyes were it to be conceived in motion and not at the exact expiration of this motion. There can be no beauty at all, as far as I am concerned — convulsive beauty — except at the cost of affirming the reciprocal relations linking the object seen in its motion and in its repose.1
Obelisk
Throughout this study we have sought to engage not only with a rereading of Bowen’s work but also with the indissociable question of how to write about that work. In other words, how might we present the novels or still lives of Elizabeth Bowen in critically appropriate ways? What sorts of critical concepts and vocabulary do the novels themselves prompt? What kinds of critical and theoretical thinking does Bowen’s work seem to call for? These key…
Dream Wood
To provide a description of The Death of the Heart (1938) may be likened to relating a dream. The Death of the Heart focuses on Portia, a sixteen-year-old orphan, callously described by her sister-in-law Anna as ‘the child of an aberration, the child of a panic, the child of an old chap’s pitiful sexuality. Conceived among lost hairpins and snapshots of doggies in a Notting Hill Gate flatlet’ (246). Her father, Mr Quayne, has an extra-marital aff…
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century
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Jacques Derrida, also, enters into heaven
Torn-off senses
Yes, Yes, the University in Ruins
The Poet
Jacques Derrida
Spooking Forms
Hotel Psychoanalysis
An introduction to literature criticism and theory
"Bennett and Royle approach their subject by way of literary works themselves (a poem by Emily Dickinson, a passage from Shakespeare, a novel by Salman Rushdie), rather than by way of abstract theoretical ideas and isms. In 32 short chapters they focus on a range of familiar-looking terms (character, the author, voice, narrative) as well as less obvious ones (laughter, pleasure, ghosts, secrets) in order to show why such literary texts are so com…
Portmanteau
Noting that the reception of Cixous's work in an Anglophone context has, to date, been principally and in some respects misleadingly filtered through issues of feminist theory, this essay proposes the notion of the uncanny as an alternative way of exploring the significance and effects of her writings. Royle focuses on the relatively early "Fiction and Its Phantoms" (on Freud's "The Uncanny") and her essay on Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-G…
Away
Ouijamiflip
Telepathies
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