J.M. Coetzee

Fictions of the Real
Herausgeber: Uhlmann, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection considers the question of understanding itself in J.M. Coetzeeâ s work, and how it is central to our conception of the world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780367231019
• ISBN-10: 0367231018
• Artikelnr.: 56975851

Autorenporträt

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), Beckett and Poststructuralism (2008), and Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (2011). He is currently completing a book on J. M. Coetzee.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. In quest of 'other modes of being': J.M. Coetzee's
ontological inquiries 2. Dusklands and the meaning of method 3. The
violence of forgetting: trauma and transnationalism in Coetzee's Dusklands
4. Reading between life and work: reflections on 'J.M. Coetzee' 5. Coetzee
& co: failure, lies and autobiography 6. The trial of David Lurie: Kafka's
courtroom in Coetzee's Disgrace 7. Insects, worlds, and the poetic in
Coetzee's writing 8. On (not) giving up: animals, biopolitics, and the
impersonal in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace