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Beyond the Ancient Quarrel brings together contributions from leading scholars to explore the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism in the work of J.M. Coetzee.
List of contents
- 1: Patrick Hayes and Jan Wilm: Ancient Quarrels, Modern Contexts: An Introduction'
- Part I. Unsettling Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and Literary Criticism
- 2: Stephen Mulhall: Health and Deviance, Irony and Incarnation: Embedding and Embodying Philosophy in The Childhood of Jesus
- 3: Max De Gaynesford: Attuning Philosophy and Literary Criticism: A Response to In the Heart of the Country'
- 4: Andrew Dean: Double Thoughts: Coetzee and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism
- 5: Julika Griem: 'Good paragraphing. Unusual content': On the Making and Unmaking of Novelistic Worlds
- Par II. Ethics and Moral Philosophy
- 6: Derek Attridge: 'A Yes without a No': Philosophical Reason and the Ethics of Conversion in Coetzee's Fiction'
- 7: Eileen John: Coetzee and Eros: A Critique of Moral Philosophy
- Part III. Reality, Language, and Subjectivity
- 8: Alice Crary: Coetzee's Quest for Reality
- 9: Martin Woessner: Beyond Realism: Coetzee's Post-Secular Imagination
- 10: Peter McDonald: Coetzee's Critique of Language
- 11: Jean-Michel Rabaté: Coetzee and Psychoanalysis: from Paranoia to Aporia
- Part IV. Contexts and Institutions
- 12: Carrol Clarkson: 'Wisselbare Woorde': Coetzee and Postcolonial Philosophy
- 13: Jan Wilm: The J.M. Coetzee Archive and the Archive in J.M. Coetzee
About the author
Patrick Hayes is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St John's College. He is the author of Philip Roth: Fiction and Power (OUP, 2014) and J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett (OUP, 2010).
Jan Wilm is a Lecturer in English Literature at Goethe University. He is co-editor, with Mark Nixon, of Samuel Beckett und die deutsche Literatur (Transcript, 2013) and author of The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee (Bloomsbury, 2016). He also works as a literary critic and a literary translator.
Summary
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel brings together contributions from leading scholars to explore the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism in the work of J.M. Coetzee.
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There is something refreshingly uncompromising about Beyond the Ancient Quarrel . . . [it] not only offers many rich insights into the link between literary form and philosophical configurations of reality, but also reveals how Coetzee helps us reconfigure our own post-theory era in light of earlier developments.
