Literature and Event

Mantra Mukim is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, University of Warwick, where he is researching failure and eventhood in the works of Samuel Beckett. His articles have most recently appeared in Textual Practice, Irish Studies Review and Review 31.?Derek Attridge is Emeritus Professor at the University of York. His publications span such topics as the history of poetry, South African literature, James Joyce, poetic form, and literary theory. His theoretical works include?Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce?(Cornell, 1988, reissued by Routledge in 2004),?The Singularity of Literature?(Routledge, 2004; reissued as a Routledge Classic in 2017),?Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces?(Edinburgh, 2010), and?The Work of Literature?(Oxford, 2015). He co-edited?Post-structuralism and the Question of History?(Cambridge, 1987),?Theory after Theory?(Routledge, 2011), and?The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century?(Routledge, 2021), and edited Jacques Derrida's?Acts of Literature?(Routledge, 1992). He is a Fellow of the British Academy