Veering and tunnelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5726424 |
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| Authors | Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 554-558 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2025.2488204 |
| OpenAlex | W4409734554 |
| Language | EN |
Veering and tunnelling are metaphors used by Nicholas Royle to characterise his unique style of reading. In his book The Uncanny, Royle uses footnotes to emulate the mole, a creature that tunnels underneath the surface. Royle's book Veering, on the other hand, takes its title from a sentence in Elizabeth Bowen's famous wartime story ‘Mysterious Kôr', in which a car is compared to a hornet veering into the unknown. The present article analyses two sentences from Bowen’s stories that show how meaning veers and swerves, escaping the confines of syntax. Royle urges us to read like a mole, plumbing the undertones of literary language, but also like a hornet, soaring into the giddy heights of paranomasia
Physics · Quantum mechanics · Quantum tunnelling · History · Tunneling and Rock Mechanics · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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