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J.M. Coetzee : critical perspectives
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ISBN: 8185753911 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Delhi : Pencraft international,

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The essays included in this volume offer a range of critical perspectives on J.M. Coetzee’s fictional works. As a novelist J.M. Coetzee is difficult to classify and perhaps the only contemporary author who has generated diverse critical responses on his works. As an author Coetzee brings to his work a unique combination of intellectual power, stylistic poise, historical vision, and ethical penetration. Theoretically informed and a master of enigmatic writing Coetzee in his works has problemtised issues of “writing”, “authority”, “power”, “race”, “patriarchy”, “gender”, “marginality”, “voice” among others including “authorial identity” in unimaginable ways. Using a disembodied language with the sharpness and precision of a surgeon’s knife and skill, the Nobel laureate has thematised life and reality not only in/of South Africa as such but with a complex, often paradoxical perspective in his own quest for a new humanism. The study looks critically at Coetzee’s fictional oeuvre in order to help readers in understanding his complex fictional world.


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The Wounded Animal
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ISBN: 1282964690 9786612964695 1400837537 9781400837533 9780691137360 0691137366 9780691137377 0691137374 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals, and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel Elizabeth Costello; and both lectures and novel have attracted the critical attention of a number of influential philosophers--including Peter Singer, Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, and John McDowell. In The Wounded Animal, Stephen Mulhall closely examines Coetzee's writings about Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them, focusing in particular on their powerful presentation of both literature and philosophy as seeking, and failing, to represent reality--in part because of reality's resistance to such projects of understanding, but also because of philosophy's unwillingness to learn from literature how best to acknowledge that resistance. In so doing, Mulhall is led to consider the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature here displays undiminished vigor and renewed significance.

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