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Derek Attridge in Conversation by Derek Attridge 9781845197537
Booksplease Price: £26.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Peculiar Language Derek Attridge 9780415340588
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69First 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... -
Semicolonial Joyce by Derek Attridge 9780521666282
Booksplease Price: £45.31James Joyce's fiction constantly engages with an Ireland whose present and past is marked by the long struggle to achieve full independence from Britain. Semicolonial Joyce is a collection of essays... -
The Singularity of Literature by Derek Attridge 9781138701090
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £60.38The 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... -
The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge 9780198733195
Booksplease Price: £98.93What 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... -
The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge 9780198798903
Booksplease Price: £35.55What 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge
Booksplease Price: £29.56This 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... -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.16James Joyce is known as a 'difficult' writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a 'dirty' one. Yet many readers - and not just in colleges and universities - have discovered his books to be... -
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge 9780521423694
Booksplease Price: £24.00This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of ordinary spoken language, and of popular verse such as nursery... -
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces by Derek Attridge
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50What 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... -
The Rhythms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge 9780582551053
Booksplease Price: £116.69Examines 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... -
Theory After 'Theory' by Derek Attridge 9780415484190
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge 9780521837101
Booksplease Price: £84.97This 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... -
James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook by Derek Attridge 9780195158311
Booksplease Price: £45.03James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in... -
Post-Structuralism and the Question of History by Derek Attridge 9780521367806
Booksplease Price: £43.34Recent developments in literary theory (such as structuralism and deconstruction) have come under attack for ignoring history, while historically based approaches have been criticised for failing to... -
Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge 9780198728115
Booksplease Price: £41.15The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey... -
The Singularity of Literature Derek Attridge (University of York, UK) 9781138701274
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.74The 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... -
Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History by Derek Attridge 9780521777889
Booksplease Price: £45.31Joyce Effects is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to... -
Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History by Derek Attridge 9780521661126
Booksplease Price: £99.43Joyce Effects is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to... -
Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge 9780199681242
Booksplease Price: £94.90The contemporary reader of English poetry is able to take pleasure in the sounds and movements of the English language in works written over the past eight centuries, and to find poems that convey... -
The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation Derek Attridge 9781138850071
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This 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... -
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers by Derek Attridge
Booksplease Price: £36.30Was 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... -
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event by Derek Attridge
Booksplease Price: £91.60Nobel 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... -
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers by Derek Attridge 9780198833154
Booksplease Price: £96.20Was 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... -
Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres by Derek Attridge 9780521297226
Booksplease Price: £45.31Sidney's statement in his Apology for Poetry that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition 'lively to express divers passions, by the... -
In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa: by Graham Pechey Derek Attridge 9781835537060
Booksplease Price: £33.78The distinguished South African scholar and critic Graham Pechey was one of the leading voices in the debates about literature's role in the apartheid state, and he continued to reflect influentially... -
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 by Derek Attridge 9780521592185
Booksplease Price: £111.14During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing... -
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 by Derek Attridge 9780521597685
Booksplease Price: £45.31During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing... -
Forms of Modernist Fiction: Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy by Derek Attridge 9781399512466
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to further innovation. Focusing on... -
Singularity and Transnational Poetics by Birgit Mara Kaiser 9780367869816
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Over the past decade 'singularity' has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume... -
Zoe Wicomb & the Translocal: Writing Scotland & South Africa by Kai Easton
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This is the first book on the fiction of Zoe Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural... -
Acts of Literature by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09First 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... -
Literary Activism: A Symposium by Amit Chaudhuri 9781911343684
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Literary Activism - activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature - emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where market pressures are effecting... -
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry by Thomas Carper 9780415311755
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Poet, 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... -
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry by Thomas Carper
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Poet, 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... -
Modernism: A Sourcebook by Steven Matthews 9781403998309
Booksplease Price: £37.81A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material drawing connections... -
James Joyce and the Question of History by James Fairhall 9780521558761
Booksplease Price: £35.47This ground-breaking book situates Joyce in his historical moment, exploring his attitudes towards colonialism, nationalism, World War I, gender, and class. Although James Fairhall draws on a wide... -
Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature by Jean-Michel Rabate 9780333793053
Booksplease Price: £39.80The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of... -
Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology by Ian Maclachlan 9781441152756
Booksplease Price: £37.81This title explores Derrida's major work through readings of key passages by such leading scholars as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, J. Hillis Miller and Avital Ronnell. With new readings from... -
Joyce & Betrayal by James Fraser 9781137595874
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive re-evaluation of one of Joyce's most pervasive themes. By showing that betrayal was central to how Joyce understood and depicted the difficulties...