J.m. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), Beckett and Poststructuralism (2008), and Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (2011). He is currently completing a book on J. M. Coetzee. Klappentext J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the 'real' and 'fictions of the real', and the central problems he deals with in his fiction are of the kind that confront people everywhere. This collection considers the question of understanding itself in Coetzee's work, and how it is central to our conception of the world. Zusammenfassung J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the ‘real’ and ‘fictions of the real’, and the central problems he deals with in his fiction are of the kind that confront people everywhere. This collection considers the question of understanding itself in Coetzee’s work, and how it is central to our conception of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. In quest of 'other modes of being': J.M. Coetzee's ontological inquiries 2. Dusklands and the meaning of method 3. The violence of forgetting: trauma and transnationalism in Coetzee's Dusklands 4. Reading between life and work: reflections on 'J.M. Coetzee' 5. Coetzee & co: failure, lies and autobiography 6. The trial of David Lurie: Kafka's courtroom in Coetzee's Disgrace 7. Insects, worlds, and the poetic in Coetzee's writing 8. On (not) giving up: animals, biopolitics, and the impersonal in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

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• Authors: Anthony (University of Western Sydney Uhlmann
• Assisted by: Anthony Uhlmann (Editor), Uhlmann Anthony (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138721777
• ISBN: 978-1-138-72177-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Republic of South Africa, 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 CRITICISM / Novel as Form