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  • J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading

    Literature in the Event

    by Derek Attridge ...
    Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics who have addressed his work have devoted themselves to rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and perplex his readers.Yet it is just these features, Derek Attridge argues, that give Coetzee's work its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Experience of Poetry

    From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers

    by Derek Attridge ...
    Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Meter and Meaning

    An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry

    by Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge ...
    Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can sense its unique use of rhythm. From this starting point they suggest an entirely fresh, jargon-free approach to reading poetry. Illustrating ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

    Edited by Derek Attridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Theory After 'Theory'

    Edited by Jane Elliott, Derek Attridge ...
    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well as examinations of established areas such as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reading and Responsibility

    Deconstruction's Traces

    by Derek Attridge ...
    Series series The Frontiers of Theory

    $27.09 USD

  • The Singularity of Literature

    by Derek Attridge ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances. However, as Derek Attridge argues in this outstanding and acclaimed book, none of these ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Literature and Event

    Twenty-First Century Reformulations

    Edited by Mantra Mukim, Derek Attridge ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature.As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Work of Reading

    Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

    Edited by Anirudh Sridhar, Mir Ali Hosseini, Derek Attridge ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods—including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others—and posits ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Rhythms of English Poetry

    by Derek Attridge ...
    Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • Acts of Literature

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. Comprising pieces spanning Derrida's career, the collection includes a substantial new interview ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of South African Literature

    Edited by David Attwell, Derek Attridge ...
    South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty ... Read more

    $34.49 USD