De La Salle University Publishing House (DLSUPH)
Derek Attridge in Conversation
Derek Attridge with David Jonathan Y. Bayot and Francisco Roman Guevara
Published and distributed by
De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House, 2015
ISBN 978-971-555-612-5
This volume of conversation not only provides a succinct philosophical biography that highlights the wide range of Attridge’s interests. It likewise foregrounds his energetic engagements with literary theory, poetics, and stylistics, as well as his reassessments of contemporary philosophy and literary ideas, specifically those pertaining to the work Jacques Derrida, James Joyce, and J. M. Coetzee. Readers will find in this book a wonderful balancing act as Attridge negotiates the dynamics between the orthodoxies of critical practice and the strategic interventions of deconstructive reading. This book, with an appendix of a chronological listing of Attridge’s publications, is an accessible and provocative introduction to the ideas of one of the most brilliant critical voices and generous presences in literary studies in the Anglophone world.
DEREK ATTRIDGE is Professor of English at the University of York. He has a long-standing involvement in literary theory, and in particular the work of Jacques Derrida. He is a well-known James Joyce scholar and is also recognized for his work on poetic form. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
DAVID JONATHAN Y. BAYOT is Associate Professor of Literature at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and the general editor of the Critical Voices series published by Sussex Academic Press.
FRANCISCO ROMAN GUEVARA (deceased) was Assistant Professorial Lecturer of Literature at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.