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Zusatztext The depth of his thinking and erudition! combined with his extraordinary philosophical and literary agility! allow Uhlmann to work deep into the difficult terrain that is the province of the Coetzean experience. In doing so! he brings Coetzee's writing to life! as only the best criticism can. This book will change the way we read Coetzee; it will also change the way we understand how literature thinks. Informationen zum Autor Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Thinking in Literature (Bloomsbury, 2011). From 2008-2013 he edited the Journal of Beckett Studies . He was shortlisted for the Australian University Heads of English Prize for Literary Scholarship for 2020. Klappentext J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee's writing. In doing so, it makes the case for Coetzee as an important and original thinker in his own right. Whilst looking at Coetzee's writing career, from his dissertation through to The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and interpreting running themes and scenarios, style and evolving attitudes to literary form, Anthony Uhlmann also offers revealing glimpses, informed by archival research, of Coetzee's writing process. Among the main themes that Uhlmann sees in Coetzee's writing, and which remains highly relevant today, is the awareness that there is truth in fiction, or that fiction can provide valuable insights into real world problems, and that there are also fictions of the truth: that we are surrounded, in our everyday lives, by stories we wish to believe are true. J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction offers a revealing new account of one of arguably our most important contemporary writers.A new interpretation of the life and career of J. M. Coetzee, encompassing all his fiction and nonfiction, with special attention to the central ideas that have informed and motivated Coetzee to write. Zusammenfassung J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee’s writing. In doing so, it makes the case for Coetzee as an important and original thinker in his own right. Whilst looking at Coetzee’s writing career, from his dissertation through to The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and interpreting running themes and scenarios, style and evolving attitudes to literary form, Anthony Uhlmann also offers revealing glimpses, informed by archival research, of Coetzee’s writing process. Among the main themes that Uhlmann sees in Coetzee’s writing, and which remains highly relevant today, is the awareness that there is truth in fiction, or that fiction can provide valuable insights into real world problems, and that there are also fictions of the truth: that we are surrounded, in our everyday lives, by stories we wish to believe are true. J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction offers a revealing new account of one of arguably our most important contemporary writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction1. Intuition, Knowledge, Truth2. Meaning: Coetzee’s Dissertation3. Method: Dusklands 4. Process: Waiting for the Barbarian s5. Ethics and Ethology6. Ethology: Life & Times of Michael K, Age of Iron 7. Disposition and Method: The Master of Petersburg 8. Truth in Fiction: Elizabeth Costello and Disgrace 9. Creative Intuition: The Childhood of Jesus 10. Experience, Insight: Boyhood, Youth Conclusion Works CitedIndex ...
