Literature and the literary have proved singularly resistant to definition. Derek Attridge argues that such resistance represents not a dead end, but a crucial starting point from which to explore anew the power and practices of Western art.
In this lively, original volume, the author:

considers the implications of regarding the literary work as an innovative cultural event, both in its time and for later generations;
provides a rich new vocabulary for discussions of literature, rethinking such terms as invention, singularity, otherness, alterity, performance and form;
returns literature to the realm of ethics, and argues the ethical importance of the literary institution to a culture;
demonstrates how a new understanding of the literary might be put to work in a 'responsible,' creative mode of reading.
The Singularity of Literature is not only a major contribution to the theory of literature, but also a celebration of the extraordinary pleasure of the literary, for reader, writer, student or critic.

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Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York and author of acclaimed works on poetry, fiction and literary theory.

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