D Attridge
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 42249 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Attridge |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Attridge |
| FIRMA | ATTRIDGE D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9677-9500 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Literature, Politics, and the Ethics of Otherness
The Cambridge Companion to the Poem
What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social a…
On Graham Pechey’s In a Province
This introduction to the life and work of Graham Pechey outlines and assesses his career as a literary critic and theorist, tracing his early attraction to Marxism, the importance of Mikhail Bakhtin to his developing interests, his engagement with South African culture and politics, his embrace of Christianity, and his later fascination with the minutiae of the English language in its literary uses. A biographical note is appended
Response
The academic field of postcolonial studies is founded upon the idea of comparison across nations that experienced colonialism. This cluster of essays raises the question: among the many possible pairings for comparison, what justifies the comparison of Ireland and South Africa as a field of study worthy of a special issue? Given the different colonial histories of the two nations, such a project could aim to show that they are not as unconnected …
Reason and Its Others in Coetzee's Jesus Novels
The trajectory of J. M. Coetzee's career as a novelist—some would say the foremost novelist writing in English over the past forty years—is not a straightforward one. Beginning with two works uncompromisingly in the modernist tradition, the disparate pair of novellas titled Dusklands (1974) and the numbered paragraphs of In the Heart of the Country (1977), he shifted to a more accessible style, and achieved international recognition, with Waiting…
Literature and Event
The Experience of Poetry
The question this book addresses is whether, in addition to its other roles, poetry—or a cultural practice we now call poetry—has, 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, continuously afforded the pleasurable experience we identify with the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms. Parts I and II examine the ev…
Homeric Greece
This chapter traces the pre-history of Western poetry as revealed in the two Homeric epics, which contain vivid representations of oral poets in archaic Greece performing epic poems to court audiences as well some other evocations of poetic song. By examining these representations, some conclusions are reached about the nature of the performances and the experience of the audiences. Although this verse was different in important ways from the poe…
Archaic to Classical Greece
Some of the so-called Homeric Hymns, dating from the seventh century BC, provide evidence of poetic performance at festivals in Greece. Alongside the sung hexameter epics, two other verse traditions appear to have been recited without music: iambics and elegiacs, both of which were used in public performances. We hear of a new kind of recited performance in the sixth century, that of the rhapsode, the fullest account of which (admittedly from a h…
Ancient Rome
This chapter focuses on the institution of the recitatio , characteristic of late Augustan and post-Augustan Rome, whereby poets read out their unfinalized poetry for an audience to criticize before revising it for publication. The main source of evidence is the Letters of Pliny the Younger, who describes in some detail both the recitationes he organized in his own house and those he attended. Comments by other writers on recitationes are cited, …
Classical Greece to Ptolemaic Alexandria
When the Phoenician alphabet was adapted for use in Greece remains a matter of debate, but the impact of writing on poetry appears most clearly around the end of the sixth century BC when papyrus rolls became more common. However, it was not until the establishment of Alexandria as a major centre of Greek culture in the later fourth century that the reading of poetry on the written page became the norm. This chapter focuses on the experience of p…
Late Antiquity
The fourth to sixth centuries AD witnessed considerable poetic activity, which is the subject of this chapter. Itinerant poets gave performances, and festivals flourished. Poetry in both Latin and Greek was composed, and the reading of poems remained both a public and a private activity. This chapter pays particular attention to two poets: Ausonius, as an example of a poet who wrote for private consumption, and Claudian, whose poetry was performe…
Ancient Rome
This chapter begins with earliest form of Latin verse, the Saturnian, dating from the early centuries after Rome’s founding; little is known about it, however. A native tradition of written verse was established when Ennius created a Latin equivalent of the Greek hexameter, and there is evidence of public performances of his epic verse. During the Late Republic, the two major poets were Lucretius and Catullus, the former inviting a reader imbibin…
The Rhythms of the English Dolnik
Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal
This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë 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 Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, South Africa, and Australia, demonstrating Wicomb’s importance as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. The central focus of the volume is the transl…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
André Brink (1935−2015)
Many Tongues / Maleme / Talle Tonge / Iilwimi Ngeelwimi / Amalimi Amanengi
The goal of the admirable Stellenbosch Literary Project, based in the Department of English at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, is to ‘extend the concept of the “literary”’. It does so through a website, slipnet.co.za, hosting blogs, poems, videos and reviews; community workshops for high-school writers; and an extraordinarily successful series of poetry sessions held in the township of Kayamandi, also in Stellenbosch. The residents …
Contemporary Afrikaans fiction in the world
Many of the most ambitious and important South African novels of the past fifty years have been written in Afrikaans, but in order to reach a global audience the authors have had to turn to translators. Focusing on Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf and Agaat, this article examines the challenges that this fiction, and the particular character and social status of different varieties of Afrikaans, present to the translator, and discusses the significan…
The Humanities without condition
In an important lecture on the function of the Humanities, ‘The University without Condition’, Jacques Derrida asks what it means to ‘profess’ the truth and advocates a commitment to the oeuvre – the work that constitutes an event rather than just a contribution to knowledge. I examine a few phrases from the lecture, focusing on questions of the unconditional, the ‘as if’, singularity, the future, and the impossible
The Case for the English Dolnik; Or, How Not to Introduce Prosody
In the teaching and criticism of poetry, this essay argues, the dominant prosodic tradition, based on classical metrics, provides no way of analyzing and appreciating one of the longest-lasting and most effective verse forms in the English tradition. But using the beat prosody developed in the author's earlier work makes it possible to capture the distinctiveness of this form that, borrowing a term from Russian prosody, may be called the dolnik. …
Afterword
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Joyce in Southern Africa
Once more with feeling
The Singular Events of Literature
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 e…
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
(2002). J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace : Introduction. Interventions: Vol. 4, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, pp. 315-320
Trusting the Other
Research Article| January 01 1994 Trusting the Other: Ethics and Politics in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron Derek Attridge Derek Attridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (1): 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-1-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Attridge; Trusting the Other: Ethics and Politics in J. M. Coetz…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
The Humanities without condition
In an important lecture on the function of the Humanities, ‘The University without Condition’, Jacques Derrida asks what it means to ‘profess’ the truth and advocates a commitment to the oeuvre – the work that constitutes an event rather than just a contribution to knowledge. I examine a few phrases from the lecture, focusing on questions of the unconditional, the ‘as if’, singularity, the future, and the impossible
The Case for the English Dolnik; Or, How Not to Introduce Prosody
In the teaching and criticism of poetry, this essay argues, the dominant prosodic tradition, based on classical metrics, provides no way of analyzing and appreciating one of the longest-lasting and most effective verse forms in the English tradition. But using the beat prosody developed in the author's earlier work makes it possible to capture the distinctiveness of this form that, borrowing a term from Russian prosody, may be called the dolnik. …
Contemporary Afrikaans fiction in the world
Many of the most ambitious and important South African novels of the past fifty years have been written in Afrikaans, but in order to reach a global audience the authors have had to turn to translators. Focusing on Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf and Agaat, this article examines the challenges that this fiction, and the particular character and social status of different varieties of Afrikaans, present to the translator, and discusses the significan…
Joyce in Southern Africa
Once more with feeling
Performing Metaphors
Nothing to Declare
J. Hillis Miller's fascination with zero stems in part from the irresolvable contradiction it presents to anyone who attempts to analyze it: it is both a number and outside all numbers. Miller's criticism is marked by a drive for clarity and precision—one of his favourite questions is “What can this mean?”—yet he is repeatedly drawn to literary texts and philosophical problems, such as the problem of zero, which allow of no simple or single analy…
White Men's (And Women's) Burden
A Note on Richard Cureton's Response
Since my hope that Richard Cureton's Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse (Cureton 1992; RPEV) will be widely read and deeply influential is much stronger than my sense of its limitations, I regret that we have fallen into a rhythm--is that the right word? of response and counterresponse. The first part of my review consisted of a necessarily condensed summary of those parts of RPEV that I consider most significant, and I am relieved to note that i…
Rethinking the Linguistic Turn
Dryden's Dilemma, or, Racine Refashioned
The history of the rhyming pentameter couplet as a medium for serious drama in English is not a lengthy one.1 Its beginnings are usually traced to Davenant's heroic opera of I656, The Siege of Rhodes, Part I, which uses a variety of metres but which may originally have been written as a spoken play in couplets, and altered because of Puritan opposition.2 Such disguises, however, were soon rendered unnecessary by the re-opening of the theatres at …
The Living Lyre in English Verse from Elizabeth through the Restoration
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Rewriting the Renaissance
Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. (Women in Culture and Society Series, ed. Catharine R. Stimpson.) Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xxxii + 426 pp. 15.95. - Volume 40 Issue 4
A Review of A Review
Rethinking the Linguistic Turn
Functions of Style
Rhythm in English Poetry
The poem, which goes on to tell of the horrible fate of parents who don't pay sufficient heed to their children's warnings, comes from the collection by A. A. Milne entitled When We Were Very Young, first published in 1924 and reprinted at regular intervals ever since. (My two-year old copy is the 85th reprint.) I suspect that the reasons why this poem has been a favorite of mine and of many other listeners and readers extend further than its rev…
Ethics after Idealism
Trusting the Other
Research Article| January 01 1994 Trusting the Other: Ethics and Politics in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron Derek Attridge Derek Attridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (1): 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-1-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Attridge; Trusting the Other: Ethics and Politics in J. M. Coetz…
Acts of Literature
A Note on Richard Cureton's Response
Since my hope that Richard Cureton's Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse (Cureton 1992; RPEV) will be widely read and deeply influential is much stronger than my sense of its limitations, I regret that we have fallen into a rhythm--is that the right word? of response and counterresponse. The first part of my review consisted of a necessarily condensed summary of those parts of RPEV that I consider most significant, and I am relieved to note that i…
Beyond Metrics
Richard Cureton has published some short studies of rhythmic patterns in poetry, but it is with the publication of Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse that the real significance of his challenge to traditional metrical study can be seen. Cureton argues that accounts of meter touch on only a very limited part of the rhythmic structures and effects of poetry and advances a full and complex theory of rhythmic phrasing above the level of the syllable …
Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity
Introduction : James Joyce, from to scientific realist -- The elements of geometry in Dubliners -- The aliments of jumeantry in A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Ulysses, chaos, and complexity -- Finnegans wake : the complexity of artificial life -- Appendixes: A. Joyce, mathematics, and science. B. Modern physics
Writing South Africa
White Men's (And Women's) Burden
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
(2002). J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace : Introduction. Interventions: Vol. 4, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, pp. 315-320
Deconstructing Digression
The constant monitoring of the internal relations of the text, crucial to our ability to make the text cohere, also produces formal pleasures analogous to those provided by a musical texture of digressions and returns in harmony, melody, rhythm, and timbre. The functioning of digression as a structural principle clearly depends on its double nature-at once necessary and dispensable, part of the novel and excluded from it, inside and outside at th…
Literature as Deviation
Literature as Deviation appear elsewhere in the text, and it is evident from the less deviant instances that James Joyce is, as so often in Ulysses , pushing a traditional novelistic device beyond its normal limits. Literature as Deviation lard&s;s genitals also proves applicable to Molly&s;s sexual endowments, in another sliding of organic allusion: "She looked fine. Joyce&s;s transgressions of the selectional restrictions of English syntax can …
Language as History/History as Language
Though the term "Saussurean revolution" is undoubtedly an over simplificiation, there is some appropriateness in using it to refer to the extensive changes in ways of conceptualizing language, including literary language, which underlie a great deal of current thinking on the subject. After Saussure, the question of the distinctiveness of literary language no longer looks like the same question, because the linguistic framework in which it is pos…
Peculiar Language
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 literary history, Derek Attridge demonstrates that such …
Literature as Imitation
The major link between what became known respectively as Russian Formalism and Prague Structuralism was the figure of Roman Jakobson who, having played a leading role in the Moscow Linguistic Circle, moved to Czechoslovakia in 1920. Although within and between these groups and movements there were wide differences, both among individuals and over time, the theorists concerned were held together by a consistent concern with the question of "litera…
Romanticism and the Language of Nature
The old Adamic dream of words that perfectly name the essences of objects has been displaced by a Romantic dream of words that perfectly speak of the inner human world. A corrective to any homogenizing account of Romanticism-including the privileging of a concept of "simple Nature-is given by A. O. Lovejoy in his famous essay "On the Disrrimination of Romanticisms," reprinted in Essays in the history of Ideas. "A multitude of causes, unknown to f…
Nature, Art, and the Supplement in Renaissance Literary Theory
The distinction between nature and art was a classical and medieval commonplace as well as a Renaissance and post-Renaissance one. Edward William Tayler calls the pairing "indispensable to the thinkers of the Renaissance" and adds that "the use of one term seems automatically to suggest the other, as if the absence of one of the words must betray the fact that the subject has been examined incompletely". Nature, then, appears in Renaissance writi…
Introduction
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows that the distinction drawn in many critical and theoretical works between what is central to a literary text and what is digressive, and it shows by means of the apparently extraordinary case of Fznnegans Wake that this is not a stable or a selfevident distinction. It examines some nodal points in the history, specific inst…
The Singularity of Literature
Winner of the ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Book Award for Literature 2006 Literature and the literary have proved singularly resistant to definition. Derek Attridge argues that such resistance represents not a dead end, but a crucial starting point from which to explore anew the power and practices of Western art.In this lively, original volume, the author: considers the implications of regarding the literary work as an innova…
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