This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of
literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has
become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life,
Royle brilliantly traces a strangely compelling 'literary turn'.
Starting with an 'Advertisement' (which literally means a 'turning
towards') like an 18th-century novel, he explores images of
swerving, loss of control, digressing and deviating to form this
new theory of literature. Royle's study ranges from Montaigne to
Stephen King, from the 'dance of atoms' in Lucretius to the 'human
veer' in Don DeLillo. With wit and irony he investigates 'veering'
in the writings of Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Melville, Hardy, Proust, Lawrence, Bowen, J.H. Prynne and many
others. Veering provides new critical perspectives on all major
literary genres: the novel, poetry, drama, the short story and the
essay, as well as 'creative writing'. It proposes a new term for
understanding post-1960s cultural and intellectual history: 'the
literary turn'. It transverses different disciplines and discourses
including verse, vertigo, the dinameu, detournement,
transversality, environmentalism, the linguistic, the ethical and
the political turn.
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