Julian Wolfreys
Biographic Data
| ID | 954922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Wolfreys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfreys |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFREYS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide
New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come
Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés
Otherwise in London’ or, the ‘Essence of Things’: Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape
Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is ex…
The Derrida Wordbook
Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity
This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, …
Undoing London or, Urban Haunts: The Fracturing of Representation in the 1990s
The Idea of Wessex: Subject, Place, and Memory in Thomas Hardy’s Poetry
Thomas and the Idea of Wessex explores the relationship of subject to place, through the lens of phenomenology. Rather than simply offer a phenomenological reading of Hardy’s poetry and its formations of subjectivity, perception, memory, and the subject’s ability to reconstitute through memory the initial impression and experience of an event, I argue that, in a number of significant ways, Thomas Hardy is readable as a proto‐phenomenologist. More…
Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses & Responsibilities
Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its 'institution' is the right of literature to say anything. Literature cannot be defined as such, and as soon as one seeks to produce a reading of the literary, complications arise. Yet despite its institutional significance, 'theory' remains something many wish would go away; and which, for others, is still not read, is …
The Urban Uncanny: The City, the Subject, and Ghostly Modernity
We find ourselves confronted by a somewhat surreal image, that of an oceanic city, famous in the imagination as well as the experience for its waterways, ‘drowned’, as my epigraph puts it, in trees. In a city already ‘compromised’ as it were by being neither wholly solid nor liquid, but a precarious amalgam of architectural presence and reiteration on the one hand, and watery provisionality on the other, the identity of place is transmogrified by…
Modern North American Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide
Modern North American Criticism and Theory presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, with particular essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, the book offers a narrat…
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, an…
Modern North American Criticism and Theory
A Self-Referential Density: Glyph and the 'Theory' Thing
'A Self-Referential Density':Glyph and the 'Theory' Thing Julian Wolfreys (bio) I assert that no other reading than the one I intend is possible and I defy interpretation beyond my mission. —Ralph Townsend Like all stories, any of these I offer here has another side. —Ralph Townsend The individual cannot exist in language . . . —Tzvetan Todorov I Let's start with the first two epigraphs. I have given these citations as epigraphs for a couple of r…
The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances
Wolfreys presents here the most dazzling views yet of Derrida as 'radical rhetorician, ' views arranged to keep us hopping from telescope to peep-hole to kaleidoscope. Wolfreys is a veteran introducer of and intruder into the writings of Derrida, which is good luck for us, since his introductions happily avoid providing linear paths to understanding and make available, instead, multiple routes leading to brain tingles and delight.-James R. Kincai…
Letter to Martin McQuillan, à propos 'The New International
Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory
Re: Joyce Text ● Culture ● Politics
The rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance: Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida
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 p
Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Re: Joyce Text ● Culture ● Politics
The Idea of Wessex: Subject, Place, and Memory in Thomas Hardy’s Poetry
Thomas and the Idea of Wessex explores the relationship of subject to place, through the lens of phenomenology. Rather than simply offer a phenomenological reading of Hardy’s poetry and its formations of subjectivity, perception, memory, and the subject’s ability to reconstitute through memory the initial impression and experience of an event, I argue that, in a number of significant ways, Thomas Hardy is readable as a proto‐phenomenologist. More…
A Self-Referential Density: Glyph and the 'Theory' Thing
'A Self-Referential Density':Glyph and the 'Theory' Thing Julian Wolfreys (bio) I assert that no other reading than the one I intend is possible and I defy interpretation beyond my mission. —Ralph Townsend Like all stories, any of these I offer here has another side. —Ralph Townsend The individual cannot exist in language . . . —Tzvetan Todorov I Let's start with the first two epigraphs. I have given these citations as epigraphs for a couple of r…
Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature
The rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance: Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida
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 p
Re: Joyce Text ● Culture ● Politics
Letter to Martin McQuillan, à propos 'The New International
Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory
The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances
Wolfreys presents here the most dazzling views yet of Derrida as 'radical rhetorician, ' views arranged to keep us hopping from telescope to peep-hole to kaleidoscope. Wolfreys is a veteran introducer of and intruder into the writings of Derrida, which is good luck for us, since his introductions happily avoid providing linear paths to understanding and make available, instead, multiple routes leading to brain tingles and delight.-James R. Kincai…
A Self-Referential Density: Glyph and the 'Theory' Thing
'A Self-Referential Density':Glyph and the 'Theory' Thing Julian Wolfreys (bio) I assert that no other reading than the one I intend is possible and I defy interpretation beyond my mission. —Ralph Townsend Like all stories, any of these I offer here has another side. —Ralph Townsend The individual cannot exist in language . . . —Tzvetan Todorov I Let's start with the first two epigraphs. I have given these citations as epigraphs for a couple of r…
Modern North American Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide
Modern North American Criticism and Theory presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, with particular essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, the book offers a narrat…
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, an…
Modern North American Criticism and Theory
The Urban Uncanny: The City, the Subject, and Ghostly Modernity
We find ourselves confronted by a somewhat surreal image, that of an oceanic city, famous in the imagination as well as the experience for its waterways, ‘drowned’, as my epigraph puts it, in trees. In a city already ‘compromised’ as it were by being neither wholly solid nor liquid, but a precarious amalgam of architectural presence and reiteration on the one hand, and watery provisionality on the other, the identity of place is transmogrified by…
Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses & Responsibilities
Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its 'institution' is the right of literature to say anything. Literature cannot be defined as such, and as soon as one seeks to produce a reading of the literary, complications arise. Yet despite its institutional significance, 'theory' remains something many wish would go away; and which, for others, is still not read, is …
Dickens's London: Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity
This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, …
Undoing London or, Urban Haunts: The Fracturing of Representation in the 1990s
The Idea of Wessex: Subject, Place, and Memory in Thomas Hardy’s Poetry
Thomas and the Idea of Wessex explores the relationship of subject to place, through the lens of phenomenology. Rather than simply offer a phenomenological reading of Hardy’s poetry and its formations of subjectivity, perception, memory, and the subject’s ability to reconstitute through memory the initial impression and experience of an event, I argue that, in a number of significant ways, Thomas Hardy is readable as a proto‐phenomenologist. More…
The Derrida Wordbook
Otherwise in London’ or, the ‘Essence of Things’: Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape
Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is ex…
New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come
Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés
Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide
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