Encountering Disgrace - Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel

First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches.

List of contents

Introduction - Bill McDonald
"We are not asked to condemn": Sympathy, Subjectivity, and the Narration of Disgrace - Michael Middleton
Beyond Sympathy: A Bakhtinian Reading of Disgrace - James Boobar
"Is it too late to educate the eye?": David Lurie, Richard of St. Victor, and "vision as eros" in Disgrace - Bill McDonald
Disgrace and the Neighbor: An Interchange with Bill McDonald - Kenneth Reinhard
"To Live as Dogs or Pigs Live Under Us": Accepting What's on Offer in Disgrace - Patrick Harrigan
Tenuous Arrangements: The Ethics of Rape in Disgrace - Julie Townsend and Kim Middleton
Dis(g)race, or White Man Writing - Sandra D. Shattuck
Clerk in a Post-Religious Age: Reading Lurie's Remnant Romantic Temperament in Disgrace - Gary Hawkins
Saying it Right in Disgrace: David Lurie, Faust, and the Romantic Conception of Language - Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
The Dispossession of David Lurie - Kevin O'Neill
Community Reading: Teaching Disgrace in an Alternative College Classroom - Matt Gray
Out of the Father's House into a Community of Readers - Kathy Ogren

Summary

First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Mcdonald, James Boobar, Gary Hawkins, Bill Mcdonald, Kathy Ogren, Julie Townsend
• Assisted by: Bill Mcdonald (Editor), Bill (Customer) McDonald (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134400
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-440-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies