Derek Attridge is Emeritus Professor at the University of York, UK. Among his books are Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce; The Singularity of Literature; The Work of Literature; Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History; The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation (with Henry Staten); and, most recently, The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers.