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J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory
No full textNobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- 1. Post-Apartheid Literature: A Personal View -- 2. Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text -- 3. Coetzee and Gordimer -- 4. Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa -- 5. Border Crossings: Self and Text -- 6. Sex, Comedy and Influence: Coetzee's Beckett -- Part II: Theory -- 7. Writing Desire Responsibly -- 8. Literature, History and Folly -- 9. Queer Bodies -- 10. Eating (Dis)Order: From Metaphoric Cannibalism to Cannibalistic Metaphors -- 11. Acts of Mourning -- 12. Sublime Abjection -- 13. Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations -- 14. Disrupting Inauthentic Readings: Coetzee's Strategies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- YNobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Adapting Coetzee for the Stage and Screen
No full textThe Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee provides indispensable scholarly perspectives, covers emerging debates and maps the future direction of Coetzee studies
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
Introduction [to special issue J. M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real]
No full textThe collection of essays assembled here began life as contributions to a major international conference on J.M. Coetzee, Traverses: J. M. Coetzee and the World, held in Adelaide, at the University of Adelaide and the University of SA in October 2014. One of the sponsors of that conference was an ARC Discovery Project, J. M. Coetzee: Making Sense in Literature, and this publication contributes to that project
J. M. Coetzee et la littérature européenne
No full textAuteur majeur des lettres anglaises depuis une trentaine d'années, désormais traduit et commenté dans le monde entier, J. M. Coetzee est encore peu étudié en France et souvent perçu à travers le filtre post-colonial. Or, le romancier sud-africain est aussi un lecteur assidu des plus grands écrivains européens de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. Depuis ses débuts, il entretient un dialogue constant avec ses prédécesseurs. Les douze essais de ce volume cernent les contours de cet intertexte qui se développe de Terres de crépuscule à L'Homme ralenti et l'analysent. Virgile, Defoe, Dostoïevski, Kafka, Beckett apparaissent comme les interlocuteurs les plus importants, derrière lesquels se profilent Nietzsche, Rilke, T. S. Eliot et bien d'autres : poètes, romanciers, autobiographes, philosophes. L'intérêt proprement critique du repérage de ces sources est évident. Mais, s'agissant d'un auteur qui a vécu la plus grande partie de sa vie sous l'apartheid, le travail critique même oblige à s'interroger sur les rapports de la littérature et de l'histoire. À leur carrefour se situe le classique : l'ensemble des œuvres humaines que J. M. Coetzee définit comme ce qui survit à la barbarie parce qu'hommes et femmes ne peuvent s'en passer à aucun prix. Sous l'apartheid et dans la nouvelle Afrique du Sud, il affirme la nécessité du classique et celle d'une littérature qui, tendue elle-même vers un devenir-classique, transmette ses pouvoirs éthiques et politiques
J. M. Coetzee: Szégyen
No full textTamás Szalay presented the following work:
JM Coetzee: Shame. Art Nouveau, Pécs, 2007Szalay Tamás a következő művet mutatta be:
J. M. Coetzee: Szégyen. Art Nouveau, Pécs, 200
Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles amharicus, new members of the Anopheles gambiae complex
No full textTwo new species within the Anopheles gambiae complex are here described and named. Based on molecular and bionomical evidence, the An. gambiae molecular "M form" is named Anopheles coluzzii Coetzee & Wilkerson sp. n., while the "S form" retains the nominotypical name Anopheles gambiae Giles. Anopheles quadriannulatus is retained for the southern African populations of this species, while the Ethiopian species is named Anopheles amharicus Hunt, Wilkerson & Coetzee sp. n., based on chromosomal, cross-mating and molecular evidence
Slow man
No full text1st American ed. J. M. Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia). A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
The experimental line in fiction
No full textThis chapter considers what J. M. Coetzee has called ‘the experimental line’ within the works of black and white writers in English and Afrikaans, showing how, during the apartheid years, its playfulness and experimentalism was often passed over in critical accounts intent on identifying a literature of witness and solidarity. It also traces the continuing ‘line’ of experimentation in post-apartheid literature
J. M. Coetzee, the Craftsman
No full textBook review:
Attwell, David. J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-to-Face with Time . New York: Viking, 2015. xxiii + 248 pages. ISBN 978-0-525-42961-6. Pbk. $27.95
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