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Derrida as literary readerIn Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.), After Derrida: literature, theory and criticism in the 21st century, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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12Derek Attridge: The Singularity of LiteratureRoutledge. 2004.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 "litera…Read more
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9Acts of LiteratureRoutledge. 1992.An introduction to Derrida's contribution to literary studies, comprising much of Derrida's work on writers such as Shakespeare, Mallarme, Joyce and Kafka, with an introductory essay on deconstruction.
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61Post-structuralism and the question of history (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1987.Recent developments in literary theory, such as structuralism and deconstruction, have come under attack for neglecting history, while historically-based approaches have been criticized for failing to take account of the problems inherent in their methodological foundations. This collection of essays is unique in that it focuses on the relation between post-structuralism and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism. The volume includes a deconstructive reading of Marx, essay…Read more
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407The singularity of literatureRoutledge. 2004.Introduction -- Creation and the other -- Originality and invention -- Inventive language and the literary event -- Singularity -- Reading and responding -- Performance -- Form, meaning, context -- Responsibility and ethics -- An everyday impossibility.
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4Derrida's singularity : literature and ethicsIn Simon Glendinning & Robert Eaglestone (eds.), Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy, Routledge. 2008.In The Singularity of Literature, Derek Attridge gives us a brilliant and engaging reflection on how to think literature in terms of the singularity of its event, an event which happens as a complex relating between the work and its reading/ interpretation. The virtues of this smart and impressive book are many, and not least among them is the clarity and accessibility of Attridge's writing, which lets his text appeal not just to scholars of literature and literary theory but also to undergradua…Read more
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14A Review of A ReviewRethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, LanguageHistory and CriticismModern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New PerspectivePost-Structuralism and the Question of HistoryThe Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Respresentation (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (4): 677. 1988.
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Review of Martin Hagglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (review)Derrida Today. forthcoming.
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1Poetry Unbound? Observations on Free VerseIn Attridge Derek (ed.), Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 73: 1987, . pp. 353. 1988.
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2Language as history/history as language: Saussure and the romance of etymologyIn Derek Attridge, Geoffrey Bennington & Robert Young (eds.), Post-structuralism and the question of history, Cambridge University Press. pp. 183--211. 1987.
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27Rethinking the Linguistic Turn: Current Anxieties in Intellectual HistoryRethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language.History and Criticism.Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives.Post-Structuralism and the Question of History (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (3): 519. 1988.
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The Art of the Impossible?In Martin McQuillan (ed.), The politics of deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the other of philosophy, Pluto Press. pp. 54--65. 2007.
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94Review of _Radical Atheism_, focusing on the question of hospitality.
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68The singular events of literatureBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (1): 81-84. 2010.The Philosophy of Literature offers an opportunity to consider the gap between the analytic and the continental traditions of aesthetics. In particular, Lamarque's survey fails to take account of the possibility that literature is an institution and a practice that challenges the conventions of instrumental rationality, a position held by a number of continental philosophers who have written on art. It also pays little attention to the reader's experience of the inventiveness of the literary wor…Read more
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