J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-17964-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

J. M. Coetzee is widely recognized as one of the most important writers working in English. As a South African (now Australian) novelist composing his best-known works in the latter third of the twentieth century, Coetzee has understandably often been read through the lenses of postcolonial theory and post-war ethics. Yet his reception is entering a new phase bolstered by thousands of pages of new and unpublished empirical evidence housed at the J. M. Coetzee archive at The Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas, Austin). This material provokes a re-reading of Coetzee's project even as it uncovers keys to his process of formal experimentation and compositional evolution up to and including Disgrace (1999). Following Coetzee's false starts, his confrontation of narrative impasses, and his shifting deployment of source materials, J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel provides a new series of detailed snapshots of one of the world's most celebrated authors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolin, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 'The Africa within': Dusklands, Satire, and Technologized Man; 2. 'The Congeries that I Bless with the Name of Evil': In the Heart of the Country's Sadian Permutations; 3. 'A Question without an Answer': Bafflement and the Surreal in Waiting for the Barbarians; 4. 'A New Kind of Man': Idiocy, Idleness, and Sovereignty in Life & Times of Michael K; 5. 'The Power of Blackness': Foe and the End of the Novel; 6. A Secular 'State of Grace'?: Age of Iron, Angelhood, and the Heterogeneous; 7. 'No Moral Defense': The Master of Petersburg's Escalations; 8. 'Subjugation, Execution, then Devouring': Clarissa, Animals, and Lucy's Final Word in Disgrace.

Über Autor(innen)

Bolin, John
John Bolin is the author of Beckett and the Modern Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and has published widely on modernism and its legacies in post-war literatures. He is a member of the Société d'Études Modernistes and the Modernist Studies Association. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.