Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J. M. Coetzee's works, practices, horizons and relations.

List of contents

Introduction Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell; 2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man Meg Samuelson; 3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus Jarad Zimbler; 4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus David James; 5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime Derek Attridge; Part II. Relations: 6. Translations Jan Steyn; 7. Collaboration and correspondence Rachel Bower; 8. Criticism and scholarship Sue Kossew; 9. Influence and intertextuality Patrick Hayes; 10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons Ben Etherington; Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations Michelle Kelly; 12. Philosophies Anthony Uhlmann; 13. Lives and archives Andrew Dean; 14. Publics and personas Andrew van der Vlies; Further reading; Index.

About the author

Jarad Zimbler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His book, J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style (2014), was shortlisted for the 2016 University English Book Prize. He is editor, with Ben Etherington, of The Cambridge Companion to World Literature (Cambridge, 2018).

Summary

This Companion introduces readers to the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. It provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works, including his novels, autobiographical fictions, translations, scholarly books, and volumes of correspondence.

Product details

• Authors: Jarad (University of Birmingham) Zimbler
• Assisted by: Jarad Zimbler (Editor), Jarad (University of Birmingham) Zimbler (Editor), Zimbler Jarad (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108466738
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46673-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 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 companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form