Derek Attridge

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Derek Attridge is affiliated with the following schools: University of York, University of Strathclyde, Rutgers University, University of Southampton

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According to Wikipedia, Derek Attridge FBA is a South African-born British academic in the field of English literature. He is Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York, having retired from the university in 2016, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. Attridge undertakes research in South African literature, James Joyce, modern fiction, deconstruction and literary theory and the history and performance of poetry. He is the author or editor of thirty books, and has published eighty articles in essay collections and a similar number in journals. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Professorship, and Fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and All Souls and St. Catherine's Colleges, Oxford. Among the visiting positions he has held have been professorships at the American University of Cairo, the University of Sassari, the University of Cape Town, Northwestern University, Wellesley College, and the University of Queensland.

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Published Works

Acts of Literature (1995) (539)
The Singularity of Literature (2004) (497)
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event (2005) (217)
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 (1999) (172)
The rhythms of English poetry (1981) (160)
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (2004) (119)
Post-structuralism and the question of history (1987) (118)
The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature (1988) (100)
Innovation, Literature, Ethics: Relating to the Other (1999) (100)
Peculiar Language: Literature As Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (1988) (90)
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (1995) (85)
Joyce Effects: Contents (2000) (84)
Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French (1985) (77)
The Cambridge history of South African literature (2012) (76)
Age of Bronze, State of Grace: Music and Dogs in Coetzee’s Disgrace (2000) (73)
Joyce effects on language, theory, and history (2000) (61)
Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres (1975) (51)
Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry (2013) (37)
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace : Introduction (2002) (35)
The Work of Literature (2015) (35)
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry (2003) (34)
Expecting the Unexpected in Coetzee’s Master of Petersburg and Derrida’s Recent Writings (1996) (28)
South Africa in the global imaginary (2012) (27)
Molly's Flow: The Writing of "Penelope" and the Question of Women's Language (2009) (25)
A return to form? (2008) (23)
Oppressive Silence: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe and the Politics of Canonisation (1996) (22)
The lyric poem during and after apartheid (2012) (20)
James Joyce's Ulysses : a casebook (2004) (17)
ZOË WICOMB’S HOME TRUTHS (2005) (17)
Unpacking the Portmanteau; or, Who’s Afraid ofFinnegans Wake? (2004) (17)
Ethical Modernism: Servants and Others in J. M. Coetzee's Early Fiction (2004) (15)
Writing the city after apartheid (2012) (15)
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces (2010) (14)
Sound and Sense in Lyric Poetry (2013) (13)
Language as History/History as Language: Saussure and the Romance of Etymology (2004) (12)
Language as Imitation: Jakobson, Joyce, and the Art of Onomatopoeia (1984) (12)
Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2004) (12)
Once more with feeling: art, affect and performance (2011) (11)
Introduction : Derrida and the Questioning of Literature (2017) (11)
Ethics after Idealism@@@The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues@@@"Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value"@@@"Speculations on Reading Marx: After Reading Derrida"@@@The Sublime Object of Ideology (1993) (11)
The liberal tradition in fiction (2012) (10)
Context, Idioculture, Invention (2012) (9)
Confession and autobiography (2012) (9)
Joyce, colonialism, and nationalism (2004) (9)
Theory after postcolonial theory: rethinking the work of mimesis: Simon Gikandi (2011) (9)
The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation (2015) (9)
Joyce's Noises (2009) (9)
Introduction: theory’s nine lives (2011) (9)
Trusting the Other: Ethics and Politics in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron (1994) (8)
La lingüística de la escritura : debates entre lengua y literatura (1989) (8)
Rethinking 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 (1988) (8)
The Dertigers and the plaasroman: two brief perspectives on Afrikaans literature (2012) (8)
The Case for the English Dolnik; Or, How Not to Introduce Prosody (2012) (7)
Contemporary Afrikaans fiction in the world: The Englishing of Marlene van Niekerk (2014) (7)
The arche-materiality of time: deconstruction, evolution and speculative materialism: Martin Hägglund (2011) (7)
Joyce the modernist (2004) (7)
English prosody from Chaucer to Wyatt (1977) (7)
Responsible Reading and Cultural Distance (2011) (6)
The rules of English metre: a response to Nigel Fabb (2003) (6)
Black writers and the historical novel: 1907–1948 (2012) (6)
A man's world: South African gay writing and the State of Emergency (1998) (6)
The beginnings of Afrikaans literature (2012) (6)
Joyce and sexuality (2004) (6)
LINGUISTIC THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM: THE RHYTHMS OF ENGLISH POETRY REVISITED (1989) (5)
Joyce the Parisian (2004) (5)
Stress-Based Metrics Revisited: A Comparative Exercise in Scansion Systems and their Implications for Iambic Pentameter (2014) (5)
Writing the interregnum: literature and the demise of apartheid (2012) (5)
J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood, Confession, and Truth (1999) (5)
Joyce and consumer culture (2004) (5)
Eighteenth-century natural history, travel writing and South African literary historiography (2012) (4)
The Body Writing: Joyce's Pen (2006) (4)
How to read Joyce (2007) (4)
The Experience of Poetry (2019) (4)
The mission presses and the rise of black journalism (2012) (4)
The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee (2018) (4)
Roland Barthes's Obtuse, Sharp Meaning and the Responsibilities of Commentary (2010) (4)
The linguistic model and its applications (1995) (4)
A Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee (2019) (4)
‘I sing of the woes of my travels’: the lifela of Lesotho (2012) (3)
Writing South Africa: Introduction (1998) (3)
Deconstruction and Fiction (2000) (3)
A Review of A Review@@@Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language@@@History and Criticism@@@Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspective@@@Post-Structuralism and the Question of History@@@The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Respresentatio (1988) (3)
Popular forms and the United Democratic Front (2012) (3)
Theatre: regulation, resistance and recovery (2012) (3)
Beyond Metrics: Richard Cureton's Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse (1996) (3)
Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction and English Translation Singularity and the Question of Minor Languages (2014) (3)
The Singular Events of Literature (2010) (3)
A response to Rob Pope (2005) (3)
The Language of Poetry: Materiality and Meaning (1981) (3)
Writing and publishing in African languages since 1948 (2012) (3)
Refracted modernisms: Roy Campbell, Herbert Dhlomo, N. P. van Wyk Louw (2012) (3)
‘A change of tongue’: questions of translation (2012) (3)
Maxima and beats: a response to Nigel Fabb’s reply (2003) (2)
Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature (2021) (2)
Dryden's Dilemma, or, Racine Refashioned: The Problem of the English Dramatic Couplet (1979) (2)
30@30: the future of literary thinking (2016) (2)
Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), 255pp, hb $65.00 (USD), ISBN-10: 080470077X, ISBN-13: 978-0804700771; pb $24.95 (USD), ISBN-10: 0804700788, ISBN-13: 978-0804700788. (2009) (2)
The Rhythms of the English Dolnik (2019) (2)
IsiNdebele, siSwati, Northern Sotho, Tshivenda and Xitsonga oral culture (2012) (2)
Literature as Imitation: Jakobson, Joyce, and the Art of Onomatopoeia (2004) (2)
‘The Bushmen's Letters’: |Xam narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection and their afterlives (2012) (2)
Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal : Writing Scotland & South Africa (2017) (2)
The Humanities without condition: Derrida and the singular oeuvre (2014) (2)
The Metrics of English@@@The Rhythms of English Poetry (1985) (2)
A Note on Richard Cureton's Response (1996) (2)
"To Speak of This You Would Need the Tongue of a God" - on Representing the Trauma of Township Violence (2011) (2)
Flowers and Flow-ers: Antiphallocentric Effects in Ulysses (2010) (2)
What Do We Mean by Experimental Art (2018) (2)
Afterword: Responsible Reading and Cultural Distance (2011) (2)
The Wake's confounded language (2000) (2)
Radical Atheism and Unconditional Responsibility (2010) (2)
Meaning in Movement (2013) (2)
Critical Rhythm (2019) (2)
The imperial romance (2012) (2)
Joyce Effects: Joyce and the ideology of character (2000) (1)
Joyce Effects: ‘ Suck was a queer word’: language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2000) (1)
A contextual analysis of Xhosa iimbongi and their izibongo (2012) (1)
Modernism, Formal Innovation, and Affect in some Contemporary Irish Novels (2020) (1)
Tom McCarthy’s Fiction: A Reading Diary (2016) (1)
NARRATIVE THICKNESS (2015) (1)
Secrecy and community in ergodic texts: Derrida, Ali Smith and the experience of form (2021) (1)
Countlessness of livestories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake (2000) (1)
When reflexivity becomes porn: mutations of a modernist theoretical practice: Rey Chow (2011) (1)
Pharmacology of spirit: and that which makes life worth living: Bernard Stiegler (2011) (1)
A Simple Thinker (1990) (1)
Finnegans Awake: The Dream of Interpretation (2014) (1)
Shades of Adamastor: the legacy of The Lusiads (2012) (1)
Joyce Effects: Preface (2000) (1)
Romanticism and the Language of Nature: The Project of Wordsworth’s Preface (2004) (1)
Joyce in Southern Africa: A Response by Derek Attridge to Ariela Freedman’s ‘Global Joyce’ (2011) (1)
Praise, politics, performance: from Zulu izibongo to the Zionists (2012) (1)
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650. Eric Weiskott. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+297. (2021) (1)
Joyce Effects: The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader (2000) (1)
The Department of English and the Experience of Literature (2015) (1)
Performing Metaphors: The Singularity of Literary Figuration (2005) (1)
Joyce Effects: Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history (2000) (1)
Reading and Responsibility (2010) (1)
Joyce: the modernist novel's revolution in matter and manner (2012) (1)
Joyce's "Clay" and the problem of the referent (2013) (1)
Review: The Path to the Poetics * Andrew Ford: The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece (2004) (1)
Form in Poetry (2014) (1)
Who's Afraid of James Joyce? (review) (2011) (1)
Nature, Art, and the Supplement in Renaissance Literary Theory: Puttenham’s Poetics of Decorum (2004) (1)
A Writer's Life (2004) (1)
Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas and the Third (2010) (1)
Semicolonial Cities and Triestine Joyce (2001) (1)
CALL FOR PAPERS for EJES (2014) (0)
No Escape from Home (2017) (0)
In Defence of the Dolnik: Twentieth-Century British Verse in Free Four-Beat Metre (2010) (0)
THE RULES OF ENGLISH METRE (2014) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas and the Third (2010) (0)
Joyce Effects: Deconstructive criticism of Joyce (2000) (0)
Creation and the Other (2017) (0)
Select bibliography: South African literary writing in English, 1970–1995 (1998) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: The Impossibility of Ethics: On Mount Moriah (2010) (0)
Literary Experience and the Value of Criticism (2015) (0)
Joyce Effects: Works cited (2000) (0)
4.3 'Ghost writing' (2001) (0)
Teaching the Text in Class (1984) (0)
Reading and ResponsibilityDeconstruction's Traces (2010) (0)
Classical Greece to Ptolemaic Alexandria: Writers and Readers (2019) (0)
1. Don Paterson’s Ars Poetica (2014) (0)
Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry, second edition (2017) (0)
Joyce Effects: Envoi: judging Joyce (2000) (0)
An Enduring Form (2013) (0)
Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the Kafka Lineage (2018) (0)
THE FUNCTIONS OF POETIC RHYTHM (2014) (0)
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History (review) (2008) (0)
Post-Structuralist Readings of English Poetry@@@Post-Structuralism and the Question of History (1990) (0)
Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction in the World: The Englishingof Marlene van Niekerk (2016) (0)
The Literary Work as Ethical Event (2016) (0)
Introduction: The Peculiar Language of Literature (2004) (0)
Homeric Greece: Courts and Singers (2019) (0)
Reviews (2009) (0)
Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Costello: Coetzee’s Female Characters and the Limits of the Sympathetic Imagination (2019) (0)
Ancient Rome: The Republic and the Augustan Age (2019) (0)
The Event of the Literary Work (2021) (0)
Nothing to Declare: J. Hillis Miller and Zero's Paradox (2004) (0)
Reading and Responding (2017) (0)
A Yes without a No (2018) (0)
Lyric, Romance, and Alliterative Verse in Fourteenth-Century England (2019) (0)
Chaucer, Gower, and Fifteenth-Century Poetry in English (2019) (0)
Joyce Effects: Wakean history: not yet (2000) (0)
Forthcoming in PMLA (1998) (0)
Archaic to Classical Greece: Festivals and Rhapsodes (2019) (0)
Writing South Africa: South Africa, 1930–1996: a chronology (1998) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction and Fiction (2010) (0)
METRICAL RULES AND THE STRUCTURES OF LANGUAGE (2014) (0)
James Joyce@@@Backgrounds for Joyce's "Dubliners"@@@Bloomers on the Liffey: Eisegetical Readings of Joyce's 'Ulysses'@@@James Joyce and Heraldry@@@Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of 'Finnegans Wake'@@@Work in Progress: Joyce Centenary Essays@@@Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French@@@Joyce (1989) (0)
Ancient Rome: The Empire after Augustus (2019) (0)
Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Idea of the Poet (2019) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction Today: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Secret (2010) (0)
Translation (Charles Baudelaire, “Au Lecteur”; Federico García Lorca, “Romance de la luna, luna, luna”; Rainer Maria Rilke, “Sonnets to Orpheus II.13”) (2015) (0)
Late Antiquity: Latin and Greek, Private, Public, Popular (2019) (0)
An Everyday Impossibility (2017) (0)
From Parturition to Uncertainty (1990) (0)
The persistence of hope: critical theory and enduring in late liberalism: Elizabeth A.Povinelli (2011) (0)
New Books on Joyce@@@Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French@@@Joyce the Creator@@@James Joyce and Sexuality@@@Children's Lore in "Finnegans Wake"@@@Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition@@@James Joyce@@@James Joyce: A Guide to Research@@@Joyce and Feminism@@@A Handlist to James Joyce's " (1987) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Stefan Helgesson.WRITING IN CRISIS: ETHICS AND HISTORY IN GORDIMER, NDEBELE AND COETZEEScottsville: U of KwaZulu P, 2004. (2005) (0)
Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal (2017) (0)
Functions of Style@@@The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature (1988) (0)
Many Tongues / Maleme / Talle Tonge / Iilwimi Ngeelwimi / Amalimi Amanengi (2014) (0)
Originality and Invention (2017) (0)
The Living Lyre in English Verse from Elizabeth through the Restoration.Louise Schleiner (1986) (0)
News that Stays News: Literature, Invention and Cultural History (2009) (0)
Modernist poetry and discursive logic (T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) (2015) (0)
Response (2021) (0)
The Novel after Theory (2014) (0)
Lexical Inventiveness and Metrical Patterns (2013) (0)
Form, Meaning, Context (2017) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Introduction (2010) (0)
Deconstructing Digression: The Backbone ofFinnegans Wakeand the Margins of Culture (2004) (0)
Coetzee in Context@@@A Story of South Africa: J. M. Coetzee's Fiction in Context (1993) (0)
Inventive Language and the Literary Event (2017) (0)
Zoë Wicomb in Conversation with Derek Attridge (2017) (0)
Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in "Ulysses", and: Narrative Con/Texts in "Ulysses", and: Wandering and Return in "Finnegans Wake": An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions (review) (2009) (0)
Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee (review) (2005) (0)
The anxiety of influence, Part 1 (1998) (0)
Poetic commentary (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116) (2015) (0)
Literature and Event (2021) (0)
James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare (review) (1995) (0)
The will of the people: dialectical voluntarism and the subject of politics: Peter Hallward (2011) (0)
Book Review:The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design Scott W. Klein (1997) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1987) (0)
Literary Terrorism (2007) (0)
Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature: A South African Example (2021) (0)
Singularity (2020) (0)
Early Medieval Poetry (2019) (0)
Dryden's Classical Theory of Literature@@@Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres (1977) (0)
André Brink (1935−2015) (2015) (0)
Encountering ‘Disgrace’: Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel (2011) (0)
Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe.Margaret W. Ferguson , Maureen Quilligan , Nancy J. Vickers (1987) (0)
Joyce Effects: Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation (2000) (0)
The practice of judgement: Hannah Arendt’s ‘Copernican revolution’: Linda M.G.Zerilli (2011) (0)
The Event of a Poem: Denise Riley’s ‘Lone Star Clattering’ (2022) (0)
Derrida's Remark on Gasché (1994) (0)
Don Paterson’s Ars Poetica (2014) (0)
The Impossibility of Ethics: On Mount Moriah (2010) (0)
RHYTHM AT WORK: SOME EXAMPLES (2014) (0)
Responsibility and ethics (2004) (0)
Literature as Deviation: Syntax, Style, and the Body inUlysses (2004) (0)
Pararealism in "Circe" (2013) (0)
The Law of Genre (2017) (0)
Rhythm and Interpretation (2013) (0)
The Role of Theory (1996) (0)
Tom McCarthy’s Modernism (2020) (0)
Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry (2019) (0)
Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Criticism (2010) (0)
Introduction: Criticism Today—Form, Critique, and the Experience of Literature (2021) (0)
Announcement (1988) (0)
Centennial Cash-In (2004) (0)
James Joyce and the Difference of Language: Language, sexuality and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2003) (0)
Wednesday, 28 December (1994) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Bibliography (2010) (0)
The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (2019) (0)
Joyce Effects: Touching ‘Clay’: reference and reality in Dubliners (2000) (0)
4 Tragedy and Historical Event 4 . 1 Literature as Historical Event (2020) (0)
Cogito ergo Sam (1990) (0)
Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime (2020) (0)
5. Form in Poetry (2014) (0)
Joyce Effects: Introduction: On being a Joycean (2000) (0)
Judging Joyce (1999) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Criticism (2010) (0)
Deconstruction Today: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Secret (2010) (0)
Contributors (2014) (0)
Th e Rhythms of the English Dolnik (2020) (0)
CURRENT JJ CHECKLIST (70) (2016) (0)
On the'Crescendo Foot' (1987) (0)
Special Issue – Is There Truth Through Fiction? (2019) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: The Place of Deconstruction: A Conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté (2010) (0)
Rhyme in English and French (2013) (0)
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History, by David Attwell (2008) (0)
Nicholas Royle, In Memory of Jacques Derrida (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2009), 224 pp. (2011) (0)
Early Tudor Poetry: Courtliness and Print (2019) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Following Derrida (2010) (0)
Meter and Meaning (2020) (0)
In Praise of Amateurism (2020) (0)
Reading and Responsibility: Index (2010) (0)
James Joyce: The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo (review) (2003) (0)

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