Nicholas Royle (literary scholar)
Nicholas WO Royle (born April 10, 1957 in London ) is a British literary scholar and writer.
Life
Royle studied at Exeter College Oxford , he received his doctorate in 1984 with a dissertation on the poet Wallace Stevens . He worked at the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1987 , then at the University of Tampere until 1992 and then at the University of Stirling . Since 1999 he has been Professor of English at the University of Sussex , where he created the Center for Creative and Critical Thought.
Royle works with Andrew Bennett , they wrote a study of Elizabeth Bowen's novels and an introduction to literary theory. He has been writing for the Oxford Literary Review since 1970 and later became an associate editor.
Royle is an expert on the work of Jacques Derrida , on whom he published a monograph in 2003. Royle wrote a "User Guide" for the deconstruction .
Royle has published two novels (as of 2017).
Works (selection)
- Veering: a theory of literature . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012
- The distraction of 'Freud': Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Bacon . 2010
- In Memory of Jacques Derrida . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009
- Telepathies . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
- How to Read Shakespeare . London: Granta, 2005
- Jacques Derrida . London: Routledge, 2003
- The uncanny . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-96702-3 .
- Deconstructions: A User's Guide . Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000
- EM Forster . Plymouth: British Council / Northcote House, 1999
- with Andrew Bennett: An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory . Prentice Hall Europe, 1999, ISBN 0-13-010914-2
- After Derrida . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995
- with Andrew Bennett: Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives . London: Macmillan, 1995
- Telepathy and Literature: Essays on the Reading Mind . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991
- (Ed.): Afterwords . Tampere, Finland: Outside Books, 1992
- with Ann Wordsworth: Psychoanalysis and literature: new work . Oxford: Oxford Literary Review, 1990
- Fiction
- An English Guide to Birdwatching . Novel. Brighton: Myriad 2017
- Quilt . Novel. Brighton: Myriad Editions, 2010
literature
- Alex Preston : Never a gull moment , review. In: Financial Times , May 20, 2017, p. L & A11
Web links
- Literature by and about Nicholas Royle in the bibliographic database WorldCat (note: unadjusted stock)
- Nicholas Royle , at University of Sussex
- Nicholas Royle , short biography and annotated list of publications, at Routledge
Individual evidence
- ^ Oxford Literary Review, ISSN 0305-1498
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Royle, Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Royle, Nicholas WO |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |