J.m. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture

Reads the writings of J.M. Coetzee against the democratic culture of neoliberalism and examines how, by aesthetic means, he enters a range of nuanced, subtly inflected differences with the dominant culture, and how his readers can enter them via attention to his work.

List of contents

• Preface: Literature and Neoliberalism, 2022


• Introduction: J.M. Coetzee, Neoliberalism, and Democratic Culture


• 1: Self Reductions: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime


• 2: Impoverishment of Resources: In the Heart of the Country, Life and Times of Michael K


• 3: Sobriety and the New Eudaemonism: Waiting for the Barbarians, Slow Man


• 4: The Creation of Difficulty: Foe, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg


• 5: The Refusal of Theodicy: The Lives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello


• 6: Countenancing Grace: 'The Vietnam Project',Age of Iron, The Childhood of Jesus


• Coda: Aesthetics of Failure:The Schooldays of Jesus, The Death of Jesus

About the author

Andrew Gibson was educated at Lord Williams's Grammar School, Thame and St. John's College, Oxford. He has held positions at the University of Hong Kong, the University of London, and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus in Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo and the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.

Summary

Reads the writings of J.M. Coetzee against the democratic culture of neoliberalism and examines how, by aesthetic means, he enters a range of nuanced, subtly inflected differences with the dominant culture, and how his readers can enter them via attention to his work.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Gibson, Andrew (Professor Emeritus in Modern Liter Gibson, Gibson Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780198857914
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885791-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Afrikaans, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature