Literary Cynics - Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

Zusatztext Here is an urbane polemic, a quietly cynical response to critical practices that ground authorial authority. Informationen zum Autor Arthur Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Vorwort Offers new perspectives on the way in which Borges, Beckett and Coetzee negotiate cynicism, cosmopolitanism and celebrity. Zusammenfassung Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority. Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges’s parables of the 1950s, Beckett’s plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee’s pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to ‘late style’, the works reflect their writers’ abiding concern with particular conceptions of rhetoric and aesthetic form. Literary Cynics combines accounts of these ‘late’ works with classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee’s Disgrace to Beckett’s letters, as well as detailed analysis of cynicism, both ancient and modern, as a philosophical and political movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Paradox One Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee 1 The Currency of Cosmopolitan FameParadox Two Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth 2 Borges’s ParablesParadox Three Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox 3 Beckett’s ImpromptusParadox Four Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa 4 Coetzee’s LessonsParadox Five Creaturely Dog Men Conclusion: On Mere Life NotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Rose, Arthur (Postdoctoral Research Fellow Rose
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781350090019
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09001-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights