Derek Attridge (NHC Fellow 2014–15; 2016–17)
Project Title, 2014–15
Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance: The Middle Ages
University of York
Project Title, 2016–17
Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance
University of York
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2014–15
Derek Attridge wrote four chapters of his book Poetry in Performance from Homer to the Renaissance and completed an essay, “Coetzee’s Kafkan Modernism?: Character and Counterfocalization,” that will appear in a volume of conference proceedings.
Fellowship Work Summary, 2016–17
Derek Attridge drafted three chapters and revised another three chapters of his book The Performance of Poetry: Homer to Shakespeare. He also coedited, with Kai Easton, Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal: Writing Scotland & South Africa (Routledge Press, 2017).