The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mehigan, Tim; Moser, Christian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer.



Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This book sets out to examine these allegiances in ways not attempted before, by bringing leadingfigures in the philosophy of literary fiction and ethics together with leading Coetzee scholars. The book is organized into three parts: the first part evaluates Coetzee with respect to notions of truth and justification. At issue is how the reader is to understand the ground on which Coetzee builds his ethical commitments. The second part considers the problem of language, in which ethics is rooted and on which it depends. The chapters of the third partposition Coetzee's writing with respect to notions of social and moral solidarity, where, in regard to literature as such or experience as such, philosophy and literature together exercise an unrivaled right to be heard.

Contributors: Elisa Aaltola, Derek Attridge, David Attwell, Maria Boletsi, Carrol Clarkson, Simon During, Patrick Hayes, Alexander Honold, Anton Leist, Tim Mehigan, Christian Moser, Robert B. Pippin, Robert Stockhammer, Markus Winkler, Martin Woessner.

Tim Mehigan is Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Christian Moser is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787441866
• Artikelnr.: 51321197

Autorenporträt

Tim Mehigan, Christian Moser

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Coetzee's Intellectual Landscapes - Tim Mehigan and Christian
Moser J. M. Coetzee on Truth, Skepticism, and Secular Confession in "The
Age We Live In" - Tim Mehigan Social Order and Transcendence: J. M.
Coetzee's Poetics of Play - Christian Moser Autobiography and Romantic
Irony: J. M. Coetzee and Roland Barthes - Patrick Hayes The Semantics of
Barbarism in J. M. Coetzee's Novel Waiting for the Barbarians - Markus
Winkler In the Heart of the Empire: Coetzee and America - Martin Woessner
Faith, Irony, Salt and Possible Impossibilities: J. M. Coetzee's The
Childhood of Jesus in Conversation with Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"
- Maria Boletsi Coetzee's Ethics of Language(s) - Robert Stockhammer Force
Fields - Carrol Clarkson The Reading of Don Quixote: Literature's Migration
into a New World - Alexander Honold The Lives of Animals: From Rational
Language to Speaking (of) Lions - Elisa Aaltola Coetzee as Academic
Novelist - Simon During Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the
Kafka Lineage - Derek Attrige J. M. Coetzee's South African Intellectual
Landscapes - David Attwell Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee's
Elizabeth Costello - Robert B. Pippin Cosmpolitanism, the Range of
Sympathy, and Coetzee - Anton Leist Index