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J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real

Editat de Anthony Uhlmann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iul 2017
J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the ‘real’ and ‘fictions of the real’, and while much has already been written about him, these questions need to be more fully explored. The contributions to this volume are drawn together by the idea of the hinge between the world (whether understood in ontological, bio-ethical, personal and interpersonal, or socio-political terms) and fictional representations of it (whether understood in epistemological, ficto-biographical, formal, or stylistic terms).
In this collection, the question of understanding itself — how we understand or imagine our place in the world — is shown to be central to our conception of that world. That is, rather than beginning with forms developed in socio-political understandings, Coetzee’s works ask us to consider what role fiction might play in relation to politics, in relation to history, in relation to ethics and our understanding of human agency and responsibility. Coetzee has a profound interest in the methods through which we make sense of the contemporary world and our place in it, and his approach appeals to readers of fiction, critics and philosophers alike. The central problems he deals with in his fiction are of the kind that confront people everywhere and so involve a "translatability" that allow the works to maintain relevance across cultures. Added to this, though, his fiction makes us question the nature of understanding itself. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138721777
ISBN-10: 1138721778
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. In quest of ‘other modes of being’: J.M. Coetzee’s ontological inquiries  2. Dusklands and the meaning of method  3. The violence of forgetting: trauma and transnationalism in Coetzee’s Dusklands  4. Reading between life and work: reflections on ‘J.M. Coetzee’  5. Coetzee & co: failure, lies and autobiography  6. The trial of David Lurie: Kafka’s courtroom in Coetzee’s Disgrace  7. Insects, worlds, and the poetic in Coetzee’s writing  8. On (not) giving up: animals, biopolitics, and the impersonal in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Descriere

J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the ‘real’ and ‘fictions of the real’, and the central problems he deals with in his fiction are of the kind that confront people everywhere. This collection considers the question of understanding itself in Coetzee’s work, and how it is central to our conception of the world.