J M Coetzee In Context And Theory

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Robert Eaglestone,Katy Iddiols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.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 : Marc Farrant,Kai Easton,Hermann Wittenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350165960

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J.M. Coetzee and the Archive by Marc Farrant,Kai Easton,Hermann Wittenberg Pdf

Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee's oeuvre. Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee's early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence. Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggests that a literary engagement with the past is crucial to a recovery of culture in the present.

Author : María J. López,María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401206945

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Acts of Visitation by María J. López,María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Critical Appropriations and Hermeneutic Resistance -- Penetration: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country -- Resistance: Waiting for the Barbarians -- Parasitism: Life and Times of Michael K and Age of Iron -- Visitation: Disgrace -- Secrecy: Foe -- (Un)belonging: Boyhood, Youth, and Summertime -- Intrusion: The Master of Petersburg and Slow Man -- Fidelities: Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year -- Works Cited -- Index.

Author : K. Hallemeier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137346537

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J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism by K. Hallemeier Pdf

Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature.

Author : Lucy Valerie Graham,Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350152069

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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 : Jarad Zimbler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108475341

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The Cambridge Companion to J.M. Coetzee by Jarad Zimbler Pdf

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J. M. Coetzee's works, practices, horizons and relations.

Author : Graham Bradshaw,Michael Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Laura Wright,Jane Poyner,Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603291774

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Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works by Laura Wright,Jane Poyner,Elleke Boehmer Pdf

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose that avoids obvious answers or easy ethical reassurance. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," identifies secondary materials, including multimedia and Internet resources, that will help instructors guide their students through the contextual and formal complexities of Coetzee's fiction. In part 2, "Approaches," essays discuss how to teach works that are sometimes suspicious of teachers and teaching. The essays aim to help instructors negotiate Coetzee's ironies and allegories in his treatment of human relationships in a changing South Africa and of the shifting connections between human beings and the biosphere.

Author : Emanuela Tegla
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004308442

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J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power by Emanuela Tegla Pdf

In J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power, Emanuela Tegla offers an exploration of the interconnectedness between morality and individual conscience in Coetzee’s fiction, as well as a narratological analysis of important stylistic aspects, such as tense, narrative silence or the moral implications of the novels’ endings.

Author : M. Middeke,Christina Wald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230336988

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The Literature of Melancholia by M. Middeke,Christina Wald Pdf

This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker.

Author : Tim Mehigan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : David Attwell,Annalisa Pes,Susanna Zinato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429513756

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Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature by David Attwell,Annalisa Pes,Susanna Zinato Pdf

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness. Linked by a common thread of reflections on shame and literary writing, the essays consider specifically whether the aesthetic and ethical capacities of literature enable a measure of stability or recuperation in the presence of shame’s destructive potential. The obscenity of the in-human, both in the colonial setting and in aftermaths that show little sign of abating, entails the acute significance of shame as a subject for continuing and urgent critical attention.

Author : Alexandra Effe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319601014

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J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression by Alexandra Effe Pdf

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

Author : Sue Kossew
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484757

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Pen and Power by Sue Kossew Pdf

Author : Sue Kossew
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020149998

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Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee by Sue Kossew Pdf

"This volume contains sixteen articles and essayslinked by their attention to central issues raised in Coetzee s writing such as the relationships between autobiography and fiction, literature and politics, sexuality and textuality, feminist poetics and fiction-making, and Apartheid. Edited and introduced by Coetzee scholar, Dr. Sue Kossew, this volume offers the reader and excellent opportunity to grasp the wide range of interpretations his books welcome." - BookDepository.