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Derek Attridge in Conversation

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782842470
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Derek Attridge in Conversation written by Derek Attridge and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of conversation not only provides a succinct philosophical biography that highlights the wide range of Attridge's interests. It likewise foregrounds his energetic engagements with literary theory, poetics, and stylistics, as well as his reassessments of contemporary philosophy and literary ideas, specifically those pertaining to the work Jacques Derrida, James Joyce, and J. M. Coetzee. Readers will find in this book a wonderful balancing act as Attridge negotiates the dynamics between the orthodoxies of critical practice and the strategic interventions of deconstructive reading. This book, with an appendix of a chronological listing of Attridge's publications, is an accessible and provocative introduction to the ideas of one of the most brilliant critical voices and generous presences in literary studies in the Anglophone world.

Derek Attridge

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789715556125
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Derek Attridge written by Derek Attridge and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading and Responsibility

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748642455
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Responsibility written by Derek Attridge and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate a variety of topics.Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret, postcolonialism, ethics, literary criticism, jargon, fiction, and photography, and responses to the theoretical writing of Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Also included is a discussion of the recent reading of Derrida's philosophy as 'radical atheism', and the book ends with a conversation on deconstruction and place with the theorist and critic Jean-Michel Rabate.Running throughout is a concern with the question of responsibility, as exemplified in Derrida's own readings of literary and philosophical texts: responsibility to the work being read, responsibility to the protocols of rational argument, and responsibility to the reader.

The Experience of Poetry

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198833156
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Poetry written by Derek Attridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

The Work of Literature

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191047589
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Work of Literature written by Derek Attridge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which develops the arguments put forward in Derek Attridge's influential study The Singularity of Literature (2004). Beginning with an extended cross-examination in the form of an interview addressing a range of topics relating to the work of literature (understood both as the activity of the writer and as the text itself) and the practices of literary reading and literary criticism, it asks what it means to 'do justice to' a work of literature, provides a full account of the concept of singularity, considers the problematic power of criticism, and advances an account of the role of context in the writing and reading of literary works. In other chapters it explores the issue of cultural difference in responses to literature, discusses the working of metaphor, questions the attribution of knowledge to literary works, and addresses the topics of affect and hospitality. The book follows through the consequences of regarding the singular and inventive work of literature as an event that takes place anew each time it is read, providing an opening to an otherness excluded by prevailing cultural norms and habits of thought and feeling. Although the focus of the book is on literature, the arguments are relevant to all the arts, and engage with the thought of major aesthetic theorists in a number of traditions.

Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal

Author : Kai Easton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367503475
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal written by Kai Easton and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, whose work offers telling insights into questions of race and gender that have worldwide significance in their relation to postcolonialism. Focusing on the translocal, it demonstrates Wicomb's importance as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. In tracking contemporary and historical relations between two localities, her fiction reveals a consistent interest in and interrogation of home and belonging, space and place. This book will make a vital contribution to current debates on migrancy and cosmopolitanism taking place in a number of disciplines, including literary studies, geography, politics, sociology, and history.

James Joyce's Ulysses

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195158318
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book James Joyce's Ulysses written by Derek Attridge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books that comprise the 'Casebooks in Criticism' series offer edited in-depth readings and critical notes and studies on the most important classic novels. This volume explores Joyce's 'Ulysses'.

The Singularity of Literature

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135169796X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Singularity of Literature written by Derek Attridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 capacities is distinctive of literature. What is the singularity of literature? Do the terms "literature" and "the literary" refer to actual entities found in cultures at certain times, or are they merely expressions characteristic of such cultures? Attridge argues that this resistance to definition and reduction is not a dead end, but a crucial starting point from which to explore anew the power and practices of Western art. Derek Attridge provides a rich new vocabulary for literature, rethinking such terms as "invention," "singularity," "otherness," "alterity," "performance" and "form." He returns literature to the realm of ethics, and argues for the ethical importance of literature, demonstrating how a new understanding of the literary might be put to work in a "responsible," creative mode of reading. The Singularity of Literature is not only a major contribution to the theory of literature, but also a celebration of the extraordinary pleasure of the literary, for reader, writer, student or critic. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.

Theory After 'Theory'

Author : Jane Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136827404
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Theory After 'Theory' written by Jane Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 subaltern studies, the postcolonial, and ethics. Influential figures such as Agamben, Badiou, Arendt, Deleuze, Derrida and Meillassoux are examined in a range of contexts. Gathering together some of the top thinkers in the field, this volume not only speculates on the fate of theory but shows its current diversity, encouraging conversation between divergent strands. Each section places the essays in their contexts and stages a comparison between different but ultimately related ways in which key thinkers are moving beyond poststructuralism. Contributors: Amanda Anderson, Ray Brassier, Adriana Cavarero, Eva Cherniavsky, Rey Chow, Claire Colebrook, Laurent Dubreuil, Roberto Esposito, Simon Gikandi, Martin Hagglünd, Peter Hallward, Brian Massumi, Peter Osborne, Elizabeth Povinelli, William Rasch, Henry Staten, Bernard Stiegler, Eugene Thacker, Cary Wolfe, Linda Zerilli.

Acts of Literature

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135965242
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Literature written by Jacques Derrida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history. Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, and offers suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and function of literature in Western culture. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the field of literary theory and criticism and continental philosophy.

J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226818772
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading written by Derek Attridge and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 haunting power and offer its greatest rewards. Attridge does justice to this power and these rewards in a study that serves as an introduction for readers new to Coetzee and a stimulus for thought for those who know his work well. Without overlooking the South African dimension of his fiction, Attridge treats Coetzee as a writer who raises questions of central importance to current debates both within literary studies and more widely in the ethical arena. Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice to our ethical impulses and acts. Attridge follows Coetzee's lead in exploring a number of issues such as interpretation and literary judgment, responsibility to the other, trust and betrayal, artistic commitment, confession, and the problematic idea of truth to the self.

The Work of World Literature

Author : Francesco Giusti
Publisher : ICI Berlin Press
ISBN 13 : 9783965580121
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Work of World Literature written by Francesco Giusti and published by ICI Berlin Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the 'world' in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around 'world literature' have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge's theory of how literature 'works', the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of 'the work of world literature'. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the centre of debates about world literature. In this volume: Derek Attridge on the work of translation Lorna Burns on world literature and postcolonialism Francesco Giusti on gestural community Benjamin Lewis Robinson on the world without literature Rashmi Varma on extractivism and indigeneity Dirk Wiemann on a literary ethics of commitment Jarad Zimbler on world literary criticism With an afterword by Emil Apter

Literature and the Rise of the Interview

Author : Rebecca Roach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192559338
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Rise of the Interview written by Rebecca Roach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major promotional device. We live in an 'interview society'. How did this happen? What is it about the interview form that we find so appealing and horrifying? Are we all just gossips or is there something more to it? What are the implications of our reliance on this bizarre dynamic for publicity, subjectivity, and democracy? Literature and the Rise of the Interview addresses these questions from the perspective of literary culture. The book traces the ways in which the interview form has been conceived and deployed by writers, and interviewing has been understood as a literary-critical practice. It excavates what we might call a 'poetics' of the interview form and practice. In so doing it covers 150 years and four continents. It includes a diverse rostrum of well-known writers, such as Henry James, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison, while reintroducing some individuals that history has forgotten, such as Betty Ross, 'Queen of Interviewers', and Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel's profligate son. Together these stories expose the interview's position in the literary imagination and consider what this might tell us about conceptions of literature, authorship, and reading communities in modernity.

The Rhythms of English Poetry

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317869516
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Rhythms of English Poetry written by Derek Attridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.

Poetic Artifice

Author : Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719007149
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Artifice written by Veronica Forrest-Thomson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge History of South African Literature

Author : David Attwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316175138
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of South African Literature written by David Attwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 international experts, including contributors from all of the major regions and language groups of South Africa. It will provide a complete portrait of South Africa's literary production, organised as a chronological history from the oral traditions existing before colonial settlement, to the post-apartheid revision of the past. In a field marked by controversy, this volume is more fully representative than any existing account of South Africa's literary history. It will make a unique contribution to Commonwealth, international and postcolonial studies and serve as a definitive reference work for decades to come.

The Uselessness of Art

Author : Peter Lamarque
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782846786
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Uselessness of Art written by Peter Lamarque and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's famous quip 'All art is quite useless' might not be as outrageous or demonstrably false as is often supposed. No-one denies that much art begins life with practical aims in mind: religious, moral, political, propagandistic, or the aggrandising of its subjects. But those works that survive the test of time will move into contexts where for new audiences any initial instrumental values recede and the works come to be valued for their own sake. The book explores this idea and its ramifications. The glorious Palaeolithic paintings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave present a stark example. In spite of total ignorance of their original purposes, we irresistibly describe the paintings as works of art and value them as such. Here we are at the very limits of what is meant by art and aesthetic appreciation. Are we misusing these terms in such an application? The question goes to the heart of the scope and ambition of aesthetics. Must aesthetics in its pursuit of art and beauty inevitably be culture-bound? Or can it transcend cultural differences and speak meaningfully of universal values: timelessly human not merely historically relative? The case of literature or film puts further pressure on the idea of art valued for its own sake. Characters in works of literature and film or finely-honed emotions in poetry often give pleasure precisely because they resonate with our own lives and seem (in the great works) to say something profound about human existence. Is not this kind of insight why we value such works? Yet the conclusion is not quite as clear-cut as it might seem and the idea of valuing something for its own sake never quite goes away.