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1	James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook more books like this by Derek Attridge (Editor) add to wishlist James 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 getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems for readers, who often don't know where to begin. ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $4.63! \| SVS
2	Acts of Literature more books like this by Professor Jacques Derrida, Derek Attridge (Editor) add to wishlist Acts of Literature, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes a substantial new ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $31.04! \| SVS
3	The Singularity of Literature more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us ... see all copies from $24.78! new only from $24.78! \| SVS
4	The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce more books like this by Derek Attridge (Editor) add to wishlist This Companion, designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader. The eleven essays, by an international team of leading Joyce scholars and teachers, explore the most important aspects of ... see all copies from $3.09! new only from $24.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Post-Structuralism and the Question of History more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist Recent 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 take account of the problems inherent in their methodological foundations. This collection of essays is unique in focusing on this central debate in ... see all copies from $16.49! new only from $35.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist Joyce 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 enhance the reader's enjoyment of these special effects. He also examines another sort of effect: the way Joyce's writing challenges and transforms our ... see all copies from $21.00! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist This 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 rhymes, song and rap. Poetic Rhythm builds on this knowledge and experience, taking the reader from the most basic questions about the rhythms of ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $36.09! \| first editions
8	How to Read Joyce more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist James Joyce is known most widely 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 funny, moving, illuminating, and packed with memorable moments. There are some simple ways to overcome the initial intimidation that Joyce's ... see all copies from $3.16! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
9	Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry more books like this by Professor Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge add to wishlist In Meter and Meaning poet Thomas Carper and distinguished scholar Derek Attridge join forces to communicate a new, user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. Side-stepping the jargon that often runs through discussions of meter, the authors begin with the basic idea of poetry as a performance and suggest an entirely fresh ... see all copies from $19.72! new only from $19.72!
10	Semicolonial Joyce more books like this by Derek Attridge (Editor), Marjorie Elizabeth Howes (Editor) add to wishlist James 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 addressing the importance of Ireland's colonial situation in understanding Joyce's work. The volume brings together leading commentators on the Irish ... see all copies from $25.60! new only from $29.49! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995 more books like this by Derek Attridge (Editor), Rosemary Jane Jolly (Editor) add to wishlist During 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 political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the ... see all copies from $28.89! new only from $34.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	Peculiar Language: Literatures as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $32.37! new only from $32.37!
13 view cover	Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist Sidney'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 low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable' is only one of numerous assertions of the superiority of classical over native metres made by English ... see all copies from $28.00! new only from $31.56! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The rhythms of English poetry more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist Examines 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 the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He ... see all copies from $99.00! new only from $121.33!
15	Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French more books like this by Derek Attridge (Photographer), Daniel Ferrer (Photographer) add to wishlist This volume is devoted to translations of some of the most significant criticism of James Joyce to have appeared in French journals over the last twenty, years. Joyce has been a great stimulus for new modes of theoretical and critical inquiry in France, which have in turn exerted a profound influence on the intellectual climate both in the UK and ... see all copies from $30.00!
16	Peculiar Language more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist In a lively and provocative fashion, Peculiar Language addresses some of the most intractable problems implicit in discussions of the language of literature. In Derek Attridge's view, all attempts by writers, critics, and literary theorists to define such language have involved self-contradiction; literary language is both set in opposition to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.74! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist Nobel 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 rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and perplex his readers. Yet it is just these features, ... see all copies from $14.10! new only from $14.10! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce more books like this by Derek Attridge add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $32.00! new only from $107.75! \| first editions \| SVS

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