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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 o...

Self-perception. --- Self-perception in literature. --- Self-concept --- Self image --- Self-understanding --- Perception --- Self-discrepancy theory --- Self-evaluation --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell,

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J. M. Coetzee's early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee's first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee's writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee's indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzee's own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a 'politics of style'. In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee's oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood.

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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. 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.

Metalepsis. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Figures of speech --- Literary style --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature   . --- African literature. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- African Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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“Kai Wiegandt’s study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee’s revision of our core ideas of the human—not least the human sense of uniqueness that we have invested in our belief in reason and conviction of God-likeness. He persuasively analyses the careful ways through which Coetzee deploys narrative as a mode of thinking through such human and post-human questions, so developing a fresh and original approach Wiegandt calls ‘anthropological realism’. Drawing on thinkers from across the French, German and Anglophone traditions, Wiegandt has produced a fiercely insightful and committedly interdisciplinary study.” — Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford “J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human offers a bold and compelling argument that is sure to make a serious intervention in Coetzee criticism. Wiegandt introduces several new fields of enquiry in relation to Coetzee’s fiction; the discussions thus reframe well-worn debates in an innovative way, making for unexpected insights in seemingly familiar critical terrain. The book opens up a valuable and thought-provoking perspective on Coetzee’s work, and will be of particular interest to the philosophically-minded Coetzee specialist.” — Carrol Clarkson, Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature, University of Amsterdam "Tracking skilfully across the shifting terrain of J. M. Coetzee’s fictions, Kai Wiegandt draws out their philosophical and literary intertexts in this lucid, erudite and compelling book, and thereby illuminates a fundamental concern that has persisted throughout Coetzee’s career: to probe and push our ideas of what it is to be human." — Jarad Zimbler, author of J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style This study argues that the most consistent concern in Coetzee’s oeuvre is the question of what makes us human. Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in his novels via a ‘poetic of testing’ which pits intertextually referenced ideas against each other in polyphonic narratives. In addition to examining the philosophical provenance of questions of the human in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Barthes and Foucault, the study charts Coetzee’s reconfiguration of elements drawn from major literary precursors like Cervantes, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka and Beckett. Its leading argument is that Coetzee revises the Enlightenment idea of the human as a disengaged, autonomous thinker by demonstrating the limitations of reason; that he instead offers a view of humanity as engaged agency, a view most compatible with ideas developed in the discourse of post humanism, theories of materiality and social practice theory; and that his revisions depend on narrative form as much as they recommend a narrative approach to ideas in general.

Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Literature   . --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- African literature. --- Poststructuralism. --- Africa—Politics and government. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- African Literature. --- African Politics. --- Post-structuralism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Structuralism --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship

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Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel 'Disgrace' has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. David Lurie as he encounters disgrace through his sexual exploitation of a student and then through the shocking gang-rape of his only daughter. The novel's uncompromising portrayal of the 'new' South Africa outraged many, who found the book regressive, even racist. It also challenged readers worldwide to confront its hard questions. This first book of essays devoted to the novel ambitiously brings together criticism and pedagogy. The ten critical essays and eight essays on teaching 'Disgrace' grapple with the ethical issues the novel so provocatively raises: rape, gender, race, animal rights. 'Disgrace' is widely taught in colleges and universities and read in book clubs; the debates it has given rise to will take on fresh life with the release of the upcoming film starring John Malkovich. Unusually, the eighteen contributors to the collection are all faculty members or graduates of the same institution, the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, and have worked together closely in crafting their essays over the past two years. The volume will be exceptionally useful to teachers of literature, philosophy, and South African culture, to book club leaders, and to all readers of Coetzee. Contributors: Nancy Best, James Boobar, Bradley Butterfield, Jane Creighton, Matthew Gray, Pat Harrigan, Gary Hawkins, Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Daniel Kiefer, Bill McDonald, Michael G. McDunnah, Kim Middleton, Kevin O'Neill, Raymond Obstfeld, Kathy Ogren, Kenneth Reinhard, Sandra D. Shattuck, Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, Julie Townsend. Bill McDonald is emeritus professor of English at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California.

Rape in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Animals in literature. --- Fathers and daughters in literature. --- Self-knowledge in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Study and teaching. --- South Africa --- In literature. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Animal rights. --- Book club. --- Coetzee. --- College. --- Controversial. --- Disgrace. --- Ethical issues. --- Gang-rape. --- Gender. --- John Malkovich. --- Novel. --- Post-apartheid South Africa. --- Race. --- Sexual exploitation. --- Teaching. --- University.