Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, References, Preface to the 2004 Edition, 1. Introduction: The Peculiar Language of Literature, 2. Nature, Art, and the Supplernent in Renaissance Literary Theory: Puttenham's Poetics of Decorum, 3. Romanticism and the Language of Nature: The Project of Wordsworth's Preface, 4. Language as HistoryIHistory as Language: Saussure and the Romance of Etymology, 5. Literature as Imitation: Jakobson, Joyce, and the Art of Onomatopoeia, 6. Literature as Deviation: Syntax, Style, and the Body in Ulysses, 7. Unpacking the Portmanteau; or, Who's Afraid of Finnegans Wake?, 8. Deconstructing Digression: The Backbone of Finnegans Wake and the Margins of Culture, Works Cited, Index

About the Author

Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York, England. He is the author and editor of leading texts on fiction, poetry and literary theory.

Reviews

"Lovers of literature have been coming out of the closet in departments of English and philosophy alike, eager to update the old defences of poetry and even speaking without shame of a "new aestheticism." If they do succeed in restoring literature to its rightful throne, and setting criticism back beside it as "the queen of the sciences" Walter Benjamin held it to be, they will owe no small debt to the trailblazing work of Derek Attridge
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-Kiernan Ryan, "Times Higher Education Supplement, 2005