Screen LibraryJ. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression : A Reconsideration of Metalepsis /
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 reconsider...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60101-4 |
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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. Aut |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XV, 413 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319601014 |
| Index Number: | PN695 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | Prologue -- Introduction: Metalepsis as Ethics -- 1. Author and Character: Of Authors, Foes, and Figurations -- 2. Author and Reader: Communication, Creation, and Care -- 3. Author and Self: Accounting for Voices and Worlds -- Conclusion. |