Critical Perspectives On J M Coetzee

Author : Graham Huggan,Stephen Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349243112

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Critical Perspectives on J. M. Coetzee by Graham Huggan,Stephen Watson Pdf

Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee is one of the first collections of critical essays on this major contemporary writer. The essays, written by an international cast of contributors, adopt a variety of approaches to Coetzee's often controversial work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's oeuvre, as well as essays that analyse in more detail individual Coetzee novels. The collection also includes a preface by Coetzee's fellow South African, the internationally acclaimed writer Nadine Gordimer.

Author : Graham Huggan,Stephen Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:493493116

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Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee by Graham Huggan,Stephen Watson Pdf

Author : Kailash Chandra Baral
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185753911

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J.M. Coetzee by Kailash Chandra Baral Pdf

On the works of John Maxwell Coetzee, b. 1940, South African novelist and nobel laurate.

Author : Chris Danta,Sue Kossew,Julian Murphet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441137142

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Strong Opinions by Chris Danta,Sue Kossew,Julian Murphet Pdf

This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author and the constitution of the human self in a posthumanist setting by consciously revealing the literary-theoretical seams of his work. Strong Opinions makes the innovative claim that Coetzee's work is driven not by a sense of scepticism or nihilism but rather by a form of controlled exposure that defines the literary. The essays in the volume variously draw attention to three of Coetzee's most recent and significant experiments in controlled exposure. The first is the exposure of place-Coetzee's decision to set his novels in his newly adopted country of Australia. The second is the exposure of form-Coetzee's direct, almost essayistic address of literary-philosophical topics within his novels. And the third is the exposure of limits-Coetzee's explicit deconstruction of the traditional limits of human life.

Author : Graham Bradshaw,Michael Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317111610

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J.M. Coetzee's Austerities by Graham Bradshaw,Michael Neill Pdf

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals: aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his "late modernist" aesthetic; exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his essays on linguistics; and paying particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments. These objectives are realized in essays focusing on, among other matters, the function of names and etymology in Coetzee's fiction, the vexed relationship between art and politics in apartheid South Africa, the importance of film in Coetzee's literary sensibility, Coetzee's reworkings of Defoe, the paradoxes inherent in confessional narratives, ethics and the controversial politics of reading Disgrace, intertextuality and the fictional self-consciousness of Slow Man. Through its pronounced emphasis on the novelist's later work, the collection points towards a narrato-political and linguistic reassessment of the Coetzee canon.

Author : Tim Mehigan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571139023

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A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee by Tim Mehigan Pdf

New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader. J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two BookerPrizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in chronological order and introducing the dominant themes in the academic discussion of his oeuvre. The volume highlights Coetzee's exceptionally nuanced approach to writing as both an exacting craft and a challenging moral-ethical undertaking. It discusses Coetzee's complex relation to apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, the land of his birth, and evaluates his complicated responses to the literary canon. Coetzee emerges as both a modernist and a highly self-aware postmodernist - a champion of the truths of aliterary enterprise conducted unrelentingly in the mode of self-confession. Contributors: Chris Ackerley, Derek Attridge, Carrol Clarkson, Simone Drichel, Johan Geertsema, David James, Michelle Kelly, Sue Kossew, MikeMarais, James Meffan, Tim Mehigan, Chris Prentice, Engelhard Weigl, Kim L. Worthington. Tim Mehigan is Professor of Languages in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Honorary Professor in the Department of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Author : Eva-Marie Herlitzius
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 3825883493

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A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer's, Andre Brink's and J.M. Coetzee's Works by Eva-Marie Herlitzius Pdf

Author : Anton Leist,Peter Singer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231148405

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J. M. Coetzee and Ethics by Anton Leist,Peter Singer Pdf

This collection takes stock of J.M. Coetzee's impact from a number of interesting angles, Including animals, sexuality, race, and reason. The time is truly ripe for such a volume. Philosophers Who are interested Coetzee's work will find these essays useful for their own research, and readers of Coetzee who share an interest in philosophy will be able to further explore those interests."-Matthew Calarco, California State University at Fullerton, and author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida --Book Jacket.

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Robert Eaglestone,Katy Iddiols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441104304

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J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory by Elleke Boehmer,Robert Eaglestone,Katy Iddiols Pdf

Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139478434

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The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee by Dominic Head Pdf

The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be as challenging as it is impressive. This book is addressed to students and readers of Coetzee: it is an up-to-date survey of the writer's fiction and context, written accessibly for those new to his work. All of the fiction is discussed, and the brooding presence of the political situation in South Africa, during the first part of his career, is given serious attention in a comprehensive account of the author's main influences. The revealing strand of confessional writing in the latter half of Coetzee's career is given full consideration. This Introduction will help new readers understand and appreciate one of the most important and challenging authors in contemporary literature.

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Robert Eaglestone,Katy Iddiols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441119353

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J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory by Elleke Boehmer,Robert Eaglestone,Katy Iddiols Pdf

Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.

Author : Verena Schörkhuber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638766531

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Metafiction in J.M. Coetzee's 'Foe' by Verena Schörkhuber Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Vienna (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Introductory Seminar Literature (year 2), 32 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The main aim of this paper is to discuss metafiction in J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986), which is a rewriting of Daniel Defoe's literary classic Robinson Crusoe (1719). I shall deal with the intersection of postcolonialism and postmodernism in Coetzee's works, give (a) brief definition(s) of metafiction and consider the origins of this term and its general functions. I will finally take a rather detailed look at metafiction and the discourse of power in Coetzee's deconstruction of the Crusoe myth.

Author : Lucy Valerie Graham,Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350152052

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee by Lucy Valerie Graham,Andrew van der Vlies Pdf

J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work. The volume covers a wealth of topics, including: · The full span of Coetzee's work from his poetry to his essays and major fiction, including Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels · Biographical details and archival approaches · Coetzee's sources and influences, including engagements with Modernism, South African, Australian, Russian and Latin American literatures · Interdisciplinary perspectives, including on visual cultures, music, philosophy, computational systems and translation. The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee provides indispensable scholarly perspectives, covers emerging debates and maps the future direction of Coetzee studies.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521482325

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J. M. Coetzee by Dominic Head Pdf

The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and the question of how the author can combine an ethical and political consciousness with a commitment to the novel as a work of fiction. In this study, written in 1998, Dominic Head assesses Coetzee's position as a white South African writer engaged with the legacy of colonialism. Through close readings of all the novels, Head shows how Coetzee inhabits a transitional site between Europe and Africa, and it is from this position that his more general concerns emerge. Coetzee's engagement with the problems facing the postcolonial writer, Head argues, is always enriched by his awareness of a wider literary tradition.

Author : Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042022409

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The Non-literate Other by Helga Ramsey-Kurz Pdf

Public debates on the benefits and dangers of mass literacy prompted nineteenth-century British authors to write about illiteracy. Since the early twentieth century writers outside Europe have paid increasing attention to the subject as a measure both of cultural dependence and independence. So far literary studies has taken little notice of this. The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English offers explanations for this lack of interest in illiteracy amongst scholars of literature, and attempts to remedy this neglect by posing the question of how writers use their literacy to write about a condition radically unlike their own. Answers to this question are given in the analysis of nineteen works featuring illiterates yet never before studied for doing so. The book explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding, of barbarians in Angela Carter, David Malouf, and J.M. Coetzee, of African natives in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe, of Maoris in Patricia Grace and Chippewas in Louise Erdrich, of fugitive or former slaves and their descendants in Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Gaines, of Untouchables in Mulk Raj Anand and Salman Rushdie, and of migrants in Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, and Amy Tan. In so doing it conveys a clear sense of the complexity and variability of the phenomenon of non-literacy as well as its fictional resourcefulness.