[This collaborative writing project of professors and graduates of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, California] addresses some of the most pressing questions faced by the reader of Disgrace - in particular, the question of empathy with the central characters - and provides frequent insights into the finer points of Coetzee's writing. The volume is also testimony to the extraordinary richness of the novel . . . . Would that our educational institutions allowed more opportunities for this kind of extended collaborative engagement with great works of art.

• Introduction - Bill McDonald"We are not asked to condemn": Sympathy, Subjectivity, and the Narration of Disgrace - Michael MiddletonBeyond Sympathy: A Bakhtinian Reading of Disgrace - James Boobar"Is it too late to educate the eye?": David Lurie, Richard of St. Victor, and "vision as eros" in Disgrace - Bill McDonaldDisgrace and the Neighbor: An Interchange with Bill McDonald - Kenneth Reinhard"To Live as Dogs or Pigs Live Under Us": Accepting What's on Offer in Disgrace - Patrick HarriganTenuous Arrangements: The Ethics of Rape in Disgrace - Julie Townsend and Kim MiddletonDis(g)race, or White Man Writing - Sandra D. ShattuckClerk in a Post-Religious Age: Reading Lurie's Remnant Romantic Temperament in Disgrace - Gary HawkinsSaying it Right in Disgrace: David Lurie, Faust, and the Romantic Conception of Language - Patricia Casey SutcliffeThe Dispossession of David Lurie - Kevin O'NeillCommunity Reading: Teaching Disgrace in an Alternative College Classroom - Matt GrayOut of the Father's House into a Community of Readers - Kathy Ogren

[This collaborative writing project of professors and graduates of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, California] addresses some of the most pressing questions faced by the reader of Disgrace - in particular, the question of empathy with the central characters - and provides frequent insights into the finer points of Coetzee's writing. The volume is also testimony to the extraordinary richness of the novel . . . . Would that our educational institutions allowed more opportunities for this kind of extended collaborative engagement with great works of art.

• Introduction - Bill McDonald"We are not asked to condemn": Sympathy, Subjectivity, and the Narration of Disgrace - Michael MiddletonBeyond Sympathy: A Bakhtinian Reading of Disgrace - James Boobar"Is it too late to educate the eye?": David Lurie, Richard of St. Victor, and "vision as eros" in Disgrace - Bill McDonaldDisgrace and the Neighbor: An Interchange with Bill McDonald - Kenneth Reinhard"To Live as Dogs or Pigs Live Under Us": Accepting What's on Offer in Disgrace - Patrick HarriganTenuous Arrangements: The Ethics of Rape in Disgrace - Julie Townsend and Kim MiddletonDis(g)race, or White Man Writing - Sandra D. ShattuckClerk in a Post-Religious Age: Reading Lurie's Remnant Romantic Temperament in Disgrace - Gary HawkinsSaying it Right in Disgrace: David Lurie, Faust, and the Romantic Conception of Language - Patricia Casey SutcliffeThe Dispossession of David Lurie - Kevin O'NeillCommunity Reading: Teaching Disgrace in an Alternative College Classroom - Matt GrayOut of the Father's House into a Community of Readers - Kathy Ogren

[This collaborative writing project of professors and graduates of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, California] addresses some of the most pressing questions faced by the reader of Disgrace - in particular, the question of empathy with the central characters - and provides frequent insights into the finer points of Coetzee's writing. The volume is also testimony to the extraordinary richness of the novel . . . . Would that our educational institutions allowed more opportunities for this kind of extended collaborative engagement with great works of art.

• Introduction - Bill McDonald"We are not asked to condemn": Sympathy, Subjectivity, and the Narration of Disgrace - Michael MiddletonBeyond Sympathy: A Bakhtinian Reading of Disgrace - James Boobar"Is it too late to educate the eye?": David Lurie, Richard of St. Victor, and "vision as eros" in Disgrace - Bill McDonaldDisgrace and the Neighbor: An Interchange with Bill McDonald - Kenneth Reinhard"To Live as Dogs or Pigs Live Under Us": Accepting What's on Offer in Disgrace - Patrick HarriganTenuous Arrangements: The Ethics of Rape in Disgrace - Julie Townsend and Kim MiddletonDis(g)race, or White Man Writing - Sandra D. ShattuckClerk in a Post-Religious Age: Reading Lurie's Remnant Romantic Temperament in Disgrace - Gary HawkinsSaying it Right in Disgrace: David Lurie, Faust, and the Romantic Conception of Language - Patricia Casey SutcliffeThe Dispossession of David Lurie - Kevin O'NeillCommunity Reading: Teaching Disgrace in an Alternative College Classroom - Matt GrayOut of the Father's House into a Community of Readers - Kathy Ogren