Photo of Nicholas RoyleNicholas Royle
Emeritus Professor (English)

Selected publications

Article

Royle, Nicholas (2014) Quick fiction: some remarks on writing today. Mosaic, 47 (1). pp. 23-39. ISSN 0027-1276

Royle, Nicholas (2014) Reading Joseph Conrad: episodes from the coast. Mosaic, 47 (1). pp. 41-67. ISSN 0027-1276

Royle, Nicholas (2014) Even the title: on the state of narrative theory today. Narrative, 22 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1063-3685

Royle, Nicholas (2013) [Review] Tim Birkhead (2012) Bird sense: what it's like to be a bird. Oxford Literary Review, 36 (2). pp. 263-265. ISSN 0305-1498

Royle, Nicholas (2013) Going to bits. Oxford Literary Review, 35 (1). pp. 65-77. ISSN 0305-1498

Royle, Nicholas (2013) To awake, Shakespeare of the night. Paragraph, 36 (2). pp. 223-239. ISSN 0264-8334

Royle, Nicholas (2013) Composition or decomposition. Times Higher Education Supplement (2094). pp. 46-49. ISSN 0049-3929

Bennett, Andrew and Royle, Nicholas (2013) A reassessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s Friends and Relations: the quiet catastrophe. Textual Practice, 27 (1). pp. 69-87. ISSN 0950-236X

Royle, Nicholas (2012) Miracle play. Oxford Literary Review, 34 (1). pp. 123-153. ISSN 0305-1498

Royle, Nicholas (2008) Fear of Freud (on the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of literature). Oxford Literary Review, 30 (1). pp. 109-146. ISSN 0305-1498

Book

Royle, Nicholas (2020) Helene Cixous: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526140661

Royle, Nicholas (2020) Mother: a memoir. Myriad, Oxford. ISBN 9781912408573

Royle, Nicholas (2017) An English guide to birdwatching. Myriad Editions, Brighton. ISBN 9781908434944

Bennett, Andrew and Royle, Nicholas (2015) This thing called literature: reading, thinking, writing. Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 9781408254011

Royle, Nicholas (2014) Jacques Derrida and the question of literature (‘Derrida to Bungaku’). Getsuyosha, Tokyo. ISBN 9784865030150

Royle, Nicholas (2011) Veering: a theory of literature. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748636549

Royle, Nicholas (2010) Quilt. Myriad Editions. ISBN 9780956251541

Royle, Nicholas (2009) In memory of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748632961

Book Section

Royle, Nicholas (2014) Poetry, animality, Derrida. In: Direk, Zeynep and Lawlor, Leonard (eds.) A companion to Derrida. Blackwell companions to philosophy (56). Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 524-536. ISBN 9781444332841

Royle, Nicholas (2014) Freud’s double. In: Marcus, Laura and Mukherjee, Ankhi (eds.) A concise companion to psychoanalysis, literature, and culture. Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 122-136. ISBN 9781405188609

Edited Special Journal Issue

Royle, Nicholas, ed. (2020) ‘We ourselves speak a language that is foreign’: one hundred years of Freud's uncanny. Oxford Literary Review, 42 (2). ISSN 0305-1498