J.M. Coetzee's Austerities

ISBN-13: 9780754668039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

Opis

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from 'Dusklands' to 'Diary of a Bad Year'. The essays explore the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his essays in linguistics.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction After Disgrace: Lord and Lady Chandos in Cape Town and Adelaide, Graham Bradshaw; Chapter 1a Coetzee's Artists; Coetzee's Art, Derek Attridge; Chapter 2 Responses to Space and Spaces of Response in J.M. Coetzee, Carrol Clarkson; Chapter 3 Coetzee on Film, Lindiwe Dovey, Teresa Dovey; Chapter 4 The Language of the Heart: Confession, Metaphor and Grace in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron, Michael Neill; Chapter 5 Disgrace as an Uncanny Revision of Gordimer's None to Accompany Me, Lars Engle; Chapter 6 Scenes from a dry imagination: Disgrace and Embarrassment, Myrtle Hooper; Chapter 7 David Lurie's Learning and the Meaning of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Laurence Wright; Chapter 8 J.M. Coetzee and South Africa: Thoughts on the Social Life of Fiction, David Attwell; Chapter 9 The true words at last from the mind in ruins: J.M. Coetzee and Realism, Jonathan Lamb; Chapter 10 Pity and Autonomy: Coetzee, Costello and Conrad, Graham Bradshaw; Chapter 11 Slow Man and the Real: A Lesson in Reading and Writing, Zoë Wicomb; Chapter 12 Close Encounters: The Author and the Character in Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year, Barbara Dancygier;

O autorze

Graham Bradshaw is Honorary Professor of English and Fine Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia; and Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.