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  • The Craft of Poetry

    Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation

    by Derek Attridge, Henry Staten ...
    This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interpret ... Read more

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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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $53.99 CAD

  • 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

    $26.09 CAD

  • Critical Rhythm

    The Poetics of a Literary Life Form

    by Ben Glaser, Assistant Professor of English, Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Derek Attridge, Simon Jarvis, David Nowell Smith, Haun Saussy, Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber, Virginia Jackson0, Ewan Jones1, Meredith Martin2, Yopie Prins3, Erin Kappeler4 ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us ... Read more

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  • Peculiar Language

    by Derek Attridge ...
    First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the language of literature have involved self-contradiction. Through examination of key moments in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • 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

    $219.99 CAD

  • Reading and Responsibility

    Deconstruction's Traces

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

    $32.99 CAD

  • 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

    $56.99 CAD

  • 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

    $86.56 CAD

  • 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

    $83.81 CAD

  • 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

    $38.99 CAD