The Work of Literature presents a fresh approach to the question of the value of literature, posing and responding to questions about the way we read and write about literature, its value to individuals and society, how it is best ...

Newly available in paperback, this book traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades examining the relationship between deconstruction, literature and ethics.

An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

Re-issued as a result of sustained critical interest in the book, this edition includes a new preface by the author.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.

This volume of conversation not only provides a succinct philosophical biography that highlights the wide range of Attridge's interests.

A straightforward and practical introduction to rhythm and meter in poetry in English.

Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice to our ethical impulses and acts.

Drawing on Derek Attridge's forty-five years of engagement with the forms of poetry, this volume provides extensive evidence of the importance of close attention to the moving and sounding of language in the poems we enjoy.

Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and ...