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Publisher : Cambria Press
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ISBN : 1621968995
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Download PDF or read online J. M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative Book by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :
Author : Alexandra Effe
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-16
ISBN : 3319601016
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (319 Download)
Download PDF or read online J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression Book by Alexandra Effe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 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 : Laura Wright
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 0820333964
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (82 Download)
Download PDF or read online "Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes" Book by Laura Wright and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and ecocriticism are brought together. Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood (Kenya), that deal with the potentially devastating effects of development, particularly through deforestation and the replacement of native flora with European varieties. Wright then uses J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (South Africa), Yann Martel's Life of Pi (India and Canada), and Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead (United States) to explore the use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals. The third chapter deals with India's water crisis via Arundhati Roy's activism and her novel, The God of Small Things. Finally, Wright looks at three novels--Flora Nwapa's Efuru (Nigeria), Keri Hulme's The Bone People (New Zealand), and Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother (South Africa)--that depict women's relationships to the land from which they have been dispossessed. Throughout Wilderness into Civilized Shapes, Wright rearticulates questions about the role of the writer of fiction as environmental activist and spokesperson, the connections between animal ethics and environmental responsibility, and the potential perpetuation of a neocolonial framework founded on western commodification and resource-based imperialism.
Author : Daniel L. Medin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-11
ISBN : 0810125676
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (81 Download)
Download PDF or read online Three Sons Book by Daniel L. Medin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction—J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald—have all acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka, both in interviews and in their own academic essays and articles for a general readership about him. In this striking feat of literary scholarship, Daniel Medin finds that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical. That writers from such divergent national and ethnic traditions can have such unique critical readings of Kafka, and that Kafka could exert such a powerful influence over their oeuvres, Medin contends, attests to the central place of Kafka in the contemporary literary imagination.
Author : Andrew Dean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-01
ISBN : 0192644823
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (192 Download)
Download PDF or read online Metafiction and the Postwar Novel Book by Andrew Dean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career. The emergence of archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring into view the stakes of different moments of writing. It develops new terms for discussing literary self-reflexivity, derived from a reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J.L. Borges - the 'self of writing' and the 'public author as signature'. Across three comprehensive chapters, Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how some of the most highly-regarded postwar writers were motivated to incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what ends. The first chapter, on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid South Africa. The second chapter, on New Zealand writer Janet Frame, draws widely from her fictions, autobiographies, and posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final chapter, on American writer Philip Roth, shows how his early reception led to his later, and often explosive, reconsiderations of identity and literary value in postwar America.
Author : K. Hallemeier
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-07
ISBN : 1137346531
Pages : 201 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (137 Download)
Download PDF or read online J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism Book by K. Hallemeier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 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 : Graham Bradshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
ISBN : 1317111613
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (317 Download)
Download PDF or read online J.M. Coetzee's Austerities Book by Graham Bradshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 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 : L. Plate
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2010-12-08
ISBN : 0230294634
Pages : 239 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (23 Download)
Download PDF or read online Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting Book by L. Plate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.
Author : Peter Shillingsburg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Release Date : 2017-06-01
ISBN : 0271079959
Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (271 Download)
Download PDF or read online Textuality and Knowledge Book by Peter Shillingsburg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship. Through thirteen essays, Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition affects understanding. He explains the consequences of textual knowledge (and ignorance) in teaching, reading, and research—and in the generous impulses behind the digitization of cultural documents. He also examines the ways in which facile assumptions about a text can lead one astray, discusses how differing international and cultural understandings of the importance of documents and their preservation shape both knowledge about and replication of works, and assesses the dissemination of information in the context of ethics and social justice. In bringing these wide-ranging pieces together, Shillingsburg reveals how and why meaning changes with each successive rendering of a work, the value in viewing each subsequent copy of a text as an original entity, and the relationship between textuality and knowledge. Featuring case studies throughout, this erudite collection distills decades of Shillingsburg’s thought on literary history and criticism and appraises the place of textual studies and scholarly editing today.
Author : M. Hyvärinen
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2008-08-04
ISBN : 0230614132
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (23 Download)
Download PDF or read online Terror and the Arts Book by M. Hyvärinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This book advances the argument that the arts, from film and literature to painting and comics, offer qualitatively different readings of terror and trauma that endeavor to resist the exploitation and perpetuation of violence.
Author : Charlotta Elmgren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-17
ISBN : 1350138436
Pages : 201 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (35 Download)
Download PDF or read online J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child Book by Charlotta Elmgren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee's fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee's poetics. Through readings of novels from Dusklands to The Schooldays of Jesus, Charlotta Elmgren shows how Coetzee's writing stages the constant interplay between irresponsibility and responsibility-to the self, the other, and the world. In articulating this poetics of (ir)responsibility, Elmgren offers the first sustained engagement with the intersections between Coetzee's work and the philosophical thought of Giorgio Agamben. With reference also to Hannah Arendt's thinking on natality, education, and amor mundi, Elmgren demonstrates the inextricable links in Coetzee's writing between freedom, play, and serious attention to the world. The book identifies five central dynamics of Coetzee's poetics: the child as a figure of truth-telling and authenticity; the ethics of the not-so-other child; the child, new beginnings and care for the world; childish behaviour as perpetual study; and the redemptive potential of infancy. Offering a fresh contribution to the field of literary childhood studies, Elmgren shows the critical possibilities in thinking about-and with-childlike openness and childish experimentation when approaching the writing and reading of the work of J.M. Coetzee and beyond.
Author : Vincent van Bever Donker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-05
ISBN : 3838268474
Pages : 270 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (838 Download)
Download PDF or read online Recognition and Ethics in World Literature Book by Vincent van Bever Donker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focusing on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. The book examines the ethical engagement of novels by Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and J. M. Coetzee, exploring the overlap and divergence between Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics. Recognitions and emotional responses are integral to the unfolding of ethical concerns, and the ethics they explore are often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic. Recognition is particularly suitable for the concerns of world literature authors in its interconnection of the universal and the particular—a binary that has been crucial in postcolonialism and remains important for the wider field of world literature. This study builds its analysis around three broad themes: religion, the memory of violence, and the human.
Author : Emanuela Tegla
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2016-01-12
ISBN : 900430844X
Pages : 291 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (4 Download)
Download PDF or read online J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power Book by Emanuela Tegla and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 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 : Michela Canepari-Labib
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
ISBN : 9783039102624
Pages : 318 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (12 Download)
Download PDF or read online Old Myths-modern Empires Book by Michela Canepari-Labib and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This study gives substantial coverage and close critical attention to a wide range of Coetzee's published writings, in the attempt to situate his oeuvre within the framework of both postmodernist and postcolonial theory and criticism. In addition, it links the political and social aspects of Coetzee's work, its South African provenance and its often oblique engagement with contemporary issues, with formal questions regarding structure, rhetoric and narrative strategies as tackled in his novels. By approaching Coetzee's fiction from a variety of critical angles and taking into account both the transformations in the socio-political context of South Africa, and the recent changes in critical reception (exemplified by the Nobel Prize he was awarded in 2003) this book therefore offers a thorough assessment of the author's oeuvre.
Author : Marek Pawlicki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-03
ISBN : 1443863475
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (443 Download)
Download PDF or read online Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism Book by Marek Pawlicki and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism: Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J. M. Coetzee takes as its premise J. M. Coetzee’s distinction between “illusionism” and “anti-illusionism”: the realist and the self-reflexive traditions in prose fiction. The aim of this critical study is to demonstrate that these two traditions are not opposed, but rather complementary to each other, and enrich the novel as a genre. Based on Marek Pawlicki’s doctoral thesis, the book is a detailed analysis of Coetzee’s oeuvre, paying particular attention to the impact of the writer’s literary essays on his fiction. Insofar as it looks into the ways in which Coetzee’s work as a critic has affected his novels, this book deals with the relation between fiction and literary criticism. Chapter One is an introduction into the topic of self-reflexivity. Chapters Two to Five, devoted to Dusklands, In the Heart of the Country, Age of Iron and Summertime, are concerned with the issue of subjectivity in confessional discourse and the boundary between fiction and autobiography. Chapters Six to Eight, concentrating on Foe, Slow Man, The Master of Petersburg, and Elizabeth Costello, offer insight into Coetzee’s views on literary creation and the role of the writer in society. Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism also examines intertextual references in Coetzee’s novels to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka and Beckett.
Author : Jacob L. Goodson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-09-19
ISBN : 1498283802
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (498 Download)
Download PDF or read online Strength of Mind Book by Jacob L. Goodson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions for cultivating courage and hope within one’s ordinary life. More specifically, courage and hope ought to be understood as the virtues required for enjoying ordinary life. If college-educated citizens wish to hold onto the concepts of courage and hope, however, then both courage and hope need to be understood as intellectual virtues. As a moral virtue, courage has become outdated. As a theological virtue, hope violates the logic of the golden mean. Focusing on intellectual virtues also requires shifting from moral perfectionism to rational perfectionism. Rational perfectionism involves keeping impossible demands in view for oneself while constantly and continually striving for one’s “unattained but attainable self.” Goodson defends these arguments by learning from the bits of wisdom found within American Transcendentalism (Emerson, Cavell), German Idealism (Kant, Hegel), Jewish philosophy (Maimonides, Spinoza, Putnam), neo-pragmatism (Putnam, Rorty, West), post-modern theories about pedagogy (Nietzsche, Foucault, Rorty), and secular accounts of perfectionism (Murdoch, Cavell).
Author : Jarad Zimbler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-30
ISBN : 1108475345
Pages : 335 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (18 Download)
Download PDF or read online The Cambridge Companion to J.M. Coetzee Book by Jarad Zimbler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J. M. Coetzee's works, practices, horizons and relations.
