Derek Attridge

The Singularity of Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351697965
• Artikelnr.: 48183254

Autorenporträt

Derek Attridge is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of York, UK. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Routledge, 2004), The Work of Literature (2015) and, with Henry Staten, The Craft of Poetry (Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition

1. Introductory

2. Creation and the other

3. Originality and invention

4. Inventive language and the literary event

5. Singularity

6. Reading and responding

7. Performance

8. Form, meaning, context

9. Responsibility and ethics

10. An everyday impossibility

Debts and Directions



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

"A deeply important book"-Rob Pope, Language and Literature

"A significant and enduring contribution towards readable, ethically engaged literary criticism" - Justin Neuman, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

"This book constitutes a timely, rigorous and thought-provoking alternative to the exigencies of politicised criticism" - Lucy O'Meara, Textual Practice