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Jarad Zimbler - J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style, Inbunden

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J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style

Av Jarad Zimbler

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Beskrivning
J. M. Coetzee's early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee's first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee's writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee's indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzee's own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a 'politics of style'. In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee's oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-06-23
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 530 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 242
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107046252
  • Utmärkelser: University English Book Prize 2016
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Jarad Zimbler is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published articles on book history, Pierre Bourdieu and postcolonial pedagogy, and is co-editor of Crafts of World Literature: Field, Material and Translation, a special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

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'Zimbler has taken a relatively traditional genre - the single-author monograph aimed at specialists - and armed it with something invigorating: a desire, first, to foreground the compositional concerns of a writer whose critics don't always attend to his handling of form; and, second, to reach beyond Coetzee aficionados by demonstrating assiduous treatments of diction, pace, and timbre that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary writing.' David James, Public Books (publicbooks.org)

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