J.M. Coetzee's Austerities

Graham Bradshaw is Honorary Professor of English and Fine Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia; and Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

'With fine contributions from Derek Attridge, David Attwell, Theresa and Lindiwe Dovey, Michael Neill, Lars Engle, and Zoe Wicomb, among others, this collection stands out in the field of academic criticism on J.M. Coetzee. The standard of scholarship is consistently high and the essays often elegant and inventive as they offer new strategies for reading one of the major authors of our day.' Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania, USA '...the collection makes a fine addition to previous scholarship on Coetzee... Highly recommended.’ Choice '... contain[s] worthily detailed readings of the whole canon.' Times Literary Supplement 'The volume will be of interest to literary critics, psychologists, sociologists, men and women of letters, linguists, and all lovers of good reading. The book’s appearance is timely and significant, in particular to those who are interested in the development of English literature in South Africa and the trends in the South African English language... very successful, instructive, and attractive.' African Studies Quarterly

• Chapter 1 Introduction After Disgrace: Lord and Lady Chandos in Cape Town and Adelaide, Graham Bradshaw; Chapter 1a Coetzee's Artists; Coetzee's Art, Derek Attridge; Chapter 2 Responses to Space and Spaces of Response in J.M. Coetzee, Carrol Clarkson; Chapter 3 Coetzee on Film, Lindiwe Dovey, Teresa Dovey; Chapter 4 The Language of the Heart: Confession, Metaphor and Grace in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron, Michael Neill; Chapter 5 Disgrace as an Uncanny Revision of Gordimer's None to Accompany Me, Lars Engle; Chapter 6 Scenes from a dry imagination: Disgrace and Embarrassment, Myrtle Hooper; Chapter 7 David Lurie's Learning and the Meaning of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Laurence Wright; Chapter 8 J.M. Coetzee and South Africa: Thoughts on the Social Life of Fiction, David Attwell; Chapter 9 The true words at last from the mind in ruins: J.M. Coetzee and Realism, Jonathan Lamb; Chapter 10 Pity and Autonomy: Coetzee, Costello and Conrad, Graham Bradshaw; Chapter 11 Slow Man and the Real: A Lesson in Reading and Writing, Zoë Wicomb; Chapter 12 Close Encounters: The Author and the Character in Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year, Barbara Dancygier;