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Derek Attridge, Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction

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I find my own sympathies falling in line with [Derek] Attridge’s careful modifications of [Charles] Larmore’s thesis, which lead him to a restatement that emphasizes that writing a text is an act in which one makes oneself “vulnerable” to others—and that our treatment of the vulnerable is a test of our ethical character. This, for Attridge, touches on the ethical thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, based on our recognition of and responsibility for the other. If texts represent an attempt—fragile, vulnerable—by someone else to communicate with us, we might conceive our responsibility to be one of respectful attention to the communication. Tho me, this does not necessarily entail evocation of the person or persons who created the text—who are largely inaccessible as persons—but to the act of attempted communication itself.

— Peter Brooks, p. 7, The Humanities and Public Life

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My Reading Process for Now

My Reading Process for Now

In memory of Jonathan Ball. After moving house earlier this year, I felt an urge to explain to you why I am reading in this manner. As I write this, I look behind my shoulder. There are no less than twelve books placed in an orderly fashion on my bed and my nightstand. No, no, no; that array has diminished somewhat since I originally began drafting My Reading Process for Now. So you see, having…

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Derek Attridge, Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction

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Literature at Work: A Conversation with Derek Attridge - Los Angeles Review of Books

Francesco Giusti discusses literary criticism and theory with Derek Attridge, author of “The Work of Literature.”

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What the style of ‘Eumaeus’ achieves, for all its attempts at propriety, is a vivid demonstration of the impossibility of fixed boundaries and significations when the structures of language are permeated by the dissolving energies of erotic desire.

Derek Attridge, ‘Literature as Deviation: Syntax, Style, and the Body in Ulysses’, 182