Singularity of Literature

Name: Singularity of Literature
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ISBN: 9780415335935

ISBN-10: 0415335930

ISBN-13: 9780415335935

Edition: 2004

Authors: Derek Attridge

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There is no shortage of testimony to literature's puzzling, unsettling, intoxicating, affecting, delighting powers. Nor has there been a shortage of attempts to define literature as a concept, a body of texts or a cultural practice. However, no definition has been able to pin down the peculiarity of literature or to chart our experience of the literary. In this volume, Derek Attridge ask us to confront with him the resistance to definition in order to explore afresh the singularity of literature. In seeking new purchase on the elusive "literary", the author finds himself reflecting upon the history of Western art as a practice and as an institution. At its heart he finds a closely linked…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface



Introductory



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


Appendix: Debts and Directions


Notes


Bibliography


Index