Strong opinions J.M. Coetzee and the authority of contemporary fiction edited by Chris Danta, Sue Kossew and Julian Murphet.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Coetzee, J. M.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Philosophy.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Philosophy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author and the constitution of the human self in a posthumanist setting by consciously revealing the literary-theoretical seams of his work. Strong Opinions makes the innovative claim that Coetzee's work is driven not by a sense of scepticism or nihilism but rather by a form of controlled exposure that defines the literary. The essays in the volume variously draw attention to three of Coetzee's most recent and significant experiments in controlled exposure. The first is the exposure of place-Coetzee's decision to set his novels in his newly adopted country of Australia. The second is the exposure of form-Coetzee's direct, almost essayistic address of literary-philosophical topics within his novels. And the third is the exposure of limits-Coetzee's explicit deconstruction of the traditional limits of human life

Contents:

J.M. coetzee's Australian realism / Elleke Boehmer

"In Australia you start zero" : the escape from place in J.M. Coetzee's late novels / Melinda Harvey

J.M. Coetzee and Patrick White : explorers, settlers, guests / Maria Lopez

Coetzee's opinions / Paul Patton

Diary of a bad year : parrhesia, opinion and novelistic form / Julian Murphet

Realism and intertextuality in Coetzee's Foe / Anthony Uhlmann

The trope of following in J.M. Coetzee's Slow man / Mike Marais

Literary migration : shifting borders in Coetzee's Australian novels / Sue Kossew

The melancholy ape : Coetzee's fables of animal finitude / Chris Danta

Silence as heterotopia in Coetzee's fiction / Bill Ashcroft.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781441137142

1441137149

9781472542793

1472542797

9781336224650

1336224657

9781441187321

1441187324

OCLC:

745865995