The work of literature - Attridge, Derek (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015)
Introduction.
Part I:
1. The singularity of literature: A cross-examination
What is 'literature'?
The literary event
Literary invention
Terminological questions
Media, periods, and genres
Otherness and ethics
The aesthetic tradition
Sources and parallels
Politics and ideology
And to conclude...
Part II
2. Justice
Doing justice
An example: Dickinson's 'As imperceptibly as grief'
Signature and counter-signature

3. Singularita
Unpacking singularity
Singularity and ethics
A songular invention: Donoghue's 'Room'

4. Criticism
Critical power: the critic
Critical power: the poet
Muldoon's 'The loaf' and the limits of comomentary

5. Context
The contest of creation
The context or reading
Present reading and historical context

6. Culture
Inventiveness and cultural distance
Reading 'The Yacoubian building'
Responsible reading across cultures

7. Metaphor
Performing literature
Metaphor and metaphoricity
Metaphor and the reader

8. Knowing
What do literary works know?
Ways of knowing and thinking
Literature's secrets

9. Affect
Literary affect: McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian'
Affect and form
Pleasure in reading

10. Hospitality
The double law of hospitality
Hospitality as ethics
Invention, grace, and life
Hospitality and literary criticism
Bibliografija: str. 306-317. - Kazalo
Keywords: teorija književnosti