Metaphysical exile : on J.M. Coetzee's Jesus fictions / Robert Pippin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pippin, Robert B., 1948- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation.

Coetzee, J. M.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Childhood of Jesus.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Schooldays of Jesus.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Death of Jesus.

Spirituality in literature.

Philosophy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi,137 pages).

Other Title:

On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus fictions

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Robert Pippin presents a detailed interpretation of J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' trilogy as a whole. Pippin treats the three fictions as a philosophical fable. Everyone in the mythical land explored by Coetzee is an exile, removed from their homeland and transported to a strange new place. While discussing the social and psychological dimensions of the fable, Pippin also treats the literary aspects of the fictions as philosophical explorations of the implications of a deeper kind of homelessness - a version that characterizes late modern life itself - and he treats the theme of forgetting as a figure for modern historical amnesia and indifference to reflection and self-knowledge.

Contents:

Introduction: The Rules of the Game

The Regime of Reason: The Childhood of Jesus

The Regime of Passion: The Schooldays of Jesus

The Regime of Nothing: The Death of Jesus.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756596-4

0-19-756597-2

0-19-756595-6

OCLC:

1226074162