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Peculiar Language

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Peculiar Language book

Peculiar Language

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Peculiar Language book

ByDerek Attridge
Edition 2nd Edition
First Published 2004
eBook Published 2 August 2004
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203462973
Pages 280 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203462973
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Attridge, D. (2004). Peculiar Language. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203462973

First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the language of literature have involved self-contradiction. Through examination of key moments in literary history, Derek Attridge demonstrates that such contradictions in accounts of literary language are embedded in our cultural concept of 'literature' and asserts that in order to appreciate the forces that determine the limits of literary language, we must look beyond the realm of the 'literary' and embrace the wider political and social sphere. Re-issued as a result of sustained critical interest in the book, this edition includes a new preface by the author.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction: The Peculiar Language of Literature

chapter 2|29 pages

Nature, Art, and the Supplement in Renaissance Literary Theory: Puttenham's Poetics of Decorum

chapter 3|44 pages

Romanticism and the Language of Nature: The Project of Wordsworth's Preface

chapter 4|37 pages

Language as History/History as Language: Saussure and the Romance of Etymology

chapter 5|31 pages

Literature as Imitation: Jakobson, Joyce, and the Art of Onomatopoeia

chapter 6|30 pages

Literature as Deviation: Syntax, Style, and the Body in Ulysses

chapter 7|22 pages

Unpacking the Portmanteau; or, Who's Afraid of Finnegans Wake?

chapter 8|29 pages

Deconstructing Digression: The Backbone of Finnegans Wake and the Margins of Culture

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