- Nationality
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Affiliation
- Department of English, University of York
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2013 1st Semester / 2017 2nd Semester
Projects
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Questions of Literature
This project will involve the further exploration of a number of issues treated briefly in the 2004 study ‘The Singularity of Literature’, a short book that examined the distinctive character of literary uses of language, emphasizing the interrelated trinity of inventiveness, singularity and alterity. -
World Literature, Minor Languages, and the Art of Translation: The Example of Afrikaans
By examining a number of literary works which were published in both Afrikaans and English in the past 25 years in the context of recent studies of the question of translation and world literature, this project will attempt to answer such questions as: Does translation of literary works into major languages represent a danger for the future of minor languages?
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The challenges of translating works of literature - Fellows' seminar by Derek Attridge
A literary work is an event experienced by a reader – an event of singularity and inventiveness.
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STIAS fellow Derek Attridge on reading Marlene van Niekerk
In an article that appeared recently on the website of Public Books titled The Triumph of Afrikaans Fiction STIAS fellow Derek Attridge recounts his reading of well-known South African author Marlene van Niekerks novel Agaat.
Publication
The Work of Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Attridge, Derek, 2015. The Work of Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-work-of-literatur...
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The triumph of Afrikaans fiction
Attridge, Derek. 2018. The triumph of Afrikaans fiction. Public Books. http://www.publicbooks.org/the-triumph-of-afrikaans-fiction/
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Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature
Attridge, Derek. 2021. Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature. In F. Giusti & B. L. Robinson (Eds.), The Work of World Literature. pp....
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Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature
Attridge, Derek. 2021. Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature. In F. G. Robinson & B. Lewis (Eds.), The Work of World Literature (pp. ...
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Forms of Modernist Fiction: Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy
Attridge, Derek. 2023. Forms of Modernist Fiction: Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghunivers...