Screen LibraryThe intellectual landscape in the works of J. M. Coetzee /
"J. M. Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction today, is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of id...
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Camden House,
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| Publisher Address: | Rochester, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in English and American literature and culture
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| Summary: |
"J. M. Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction today, is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This book sets out to examine these allegiances in ways not attempted before, by bringing leading figures in the philosophy of literary fiction and ethics together with leading Coetzee scholars. The book is organized into three parts: the first part evaluates Coetzee with respect to notions of truth and justification. At issue is how the reader is to understand the ground on which Coetzee builds his ethical commitments. The second part considers the problem of language, in which ethics is rooted and on which it depends. The chapters of the third part position Coetzee's writing with respect to notions of social and moral solidarity, where, in regard to literature as such or experience as such, philosophy and literature together exercise an unrivaled right to be heard"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 344 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781571139764 (hardback) : 1571139761 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PR9369 |
| CLC: | I611.065 |
| Call Number: | I611.065/I611 |
| Contents: | J. M. Coetzee on truth, skepticism, and secular confession in "The Age We Live in" / Tim Mehigan -- Social order and transcendence : J. M. Coetzee's poetics of play / Christian Moser -- Autobiography and romantic irony : J. M. Coetzee and Roland Barthes / Patrick Hayes -- The semantics of barbarism in J. M. Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians / Markus Winkler -- In the heart of the empire : Coetzee and America / Martin Woessner -- Faith, irony, salt, and possible impossibilities : J. M. Coetzee's the childhood -- Of Jesus in conversation with Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology" / Maria Boletsi -- Coetzee's ethics of language(s) / Robert Stockhammer -- Force fields / Carrol Clarkson -- The reading of Don Quixote : literature's migration into a new world / Alexander Honold -- The lives of animals : from rational language to speaking (of) lions / Elisa Aaltola -- Coetzee as academic novelist / Simon During -- Character and counterfocalization : Coetzee and the Kafka lineage / Derek Attridge -- J. M. Coetzee's South African intellectual landscapes / David Attwell -- Philosophical fiction? On J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello / Robert B. Pippin -- Cosmopolitanism, the range of sympathy, and Coetzee / Anton Leist. |