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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: J.M. Coetzee and the idea of the public intellectual. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006 (OCoLC)607741934 Online version: J.M. Coetzee and the idea of the public intellectual. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006 (OCoLC)625520679 |
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| Named Person: | J M Coetzee; John M Coetzee |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Poyner |
| ISBN: | 0821416863 0821416871 9780821416860 9780821416877 1869141288 9781869141288 |
| OCLC Number: | 67239997 |
| Description: | vii, 246 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Jane Poyner -- The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J.M. Coetzee and the public sphere / David Attwell -- The writer, the critic, and the censor : J.M. Coetzee and the question of literature / Peter D. McDonald -- Against allegory : 'Waiting for the barbarians, ' 'Life & times of Michael K, ' and the question of literary reading / Derek Attridge -- Death and the space of the response to the other in J.M. Coetzee's 'The master of Petersburg' / Michael Marais -- A belief in frogs : J.M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction / Dominic Head -- J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination / Sam Durrant -- Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace' / Elleke Boehmer -- Going to the dogs : humanity in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace, ' 'The lives of animals, ' and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Rosemary Jolly -- What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men / Michael Bell -- A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J.M. Coetzee's 'The life of animals' / Laura Wright -- Textual transvestism : the female voices of J.M. Coetzee / Lucy Graham. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jane Poyner. |
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Abstract:
This text addresses the contribution J.M. Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies.
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