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Derek Attridge

The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge

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January-February 2016, no. 378
Paul Giles reviews 'The Work of Literature' by Derek Attridge

Derek Attridge is one of the most formidable theorists working today in the field of literary studies. His central strategy is to identify potential for recognition in the reading process of singularity and alterity, with the qualities of a particular work manifesting themselves most powerfully when they reveal 'unexpected possibilities of thought and feeling'.

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J.M. Coetzee And The Ethics Of Reading: Literature in the event by Derek Attridge

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April 2005, no. 270
Sue Thomas reviews 'J.M. Coetzee And The Ethics Of Reading: Literature in the event' by Derek Attridge

J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics Of Reading is both a deeply scholarly response to the work of a brilliant and challenging writer, and an act of advocacy for a particular mode of reading, which Derek Attridge characterises variously as ethical, literary, ‘attentive’ and scrupulously responsive to the text. This mode draws on practices of ‘close reading’, while proposing the ethics of ...

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