Reading Coetzee

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Del 34 i serien Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

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Beskrivning

Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves critical essays on Coetzee’s works with an autobiographical narrative detailing MacFarlane’s more personal response to her reading and writing. The presentation of elements of the creative with the critical, and the critical within the creative, aims to challenge the traditional boundary between the two. This kind of methodology derives from the idea (and practice) of embodiment: that an idea or philosophy does not ‘float free’, but is tied to the idiosyncrasies, divergences, and subjective ‘travel’ of its speaker or writer.Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year explicitly address themes which abide more surreptitiously throughout his oeuvre: the divisions and paradoxes which occur the moment pen gains page, the value of literature, and the ethics of embodiment. In revealing the dialogue between writer-self and reader-self, and between author and character, these recent novels invite a rereading of Coetzee’s previous literature. Reading Coetzee explores Coetzee’s preoccupation with the act of writing using his recent books as a lens through which to view his eight previous novels as well as his memoirs and essays.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789042037014

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Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Elizabeth MacFarlane is a writer and researcher in the Creative Writing department at the University of Melbourne.

Recensioner i media

”My impression is that this is a significant and daring work. It is a rare and refreshing pleasure to read an academic book where the writer is willing to put herself on the line, not only through her assessment of someone else, but by writing stories and creative non-fiction that relate to her main line of investigation. (It turns out that some of those who teach also can do). This makes everything matter to the reader because it all clearly matters to and affects Elizabeth MacFarlane. Her enterprise is not a pursuit of status but a pursuit of understanding and fuller living.” – Per K. Brask, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionThis Book is Irregular: On the critical-creative nexusThe middle voice‘I have beliefs but I do not believe in them’The voice of the literary criticThe critical landscapeCoetzee’s recurring blank pageThe written is always a compromiseMetaphor as Contagion: On the Postscript of Elizabeth CostelloElizabeth Costello as Postscript to Coetzee’s oeuvreLord Chandos’s total renunciation of literary activityLady Chandos and the problem of metaphorThe Author Divided in Coetzee’s NovelsA moment of rupture: The white-haired womanTime, tense, and aspectSinging birdsDivided and divined‘A going against’: Coetzee, postmodernism, and late styleWhere is Coetzee? Authors and charactersHer man and sheThe Ethics of EmbodimentThe ethics of embodiment: Philosophy and literatureCostello’s progress, human to apeThe dark chamber: Ethics and ambiguityTwo suspended elements: sentence, narrative, textThe metaphor of the realShort fictionThe Nature of ItMuseumThe ScarTriptychConclusionsForeground and backgroundLate styleThe wrong questionPostscript: A Bad YearReferencesIndex