Reading Coetzee

著者

• MacFarlane, Elizabeth

書誌事項

Reading Coetzee

Elizabeth MacFarlane

（Consciousness, literature & the arts, 34）

Rodopi, 2013

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Introduction This Book is Irregular: On the critical-creative nexus The middle voice 'I have beliefs but I do not believe in them' The voice of the literary critic The critical landscape Coetzee's recurring blank page The written is always a compromise Metaphor as Contagion: On the Postscript of Elizabeth Costello Elizabeth Costello as Postscript to Coetzee's oeuvre Lord Chandos's total renunciation of literary activity Lady Chandos and the problem of metaphor The Author Divided in Coetzee's Novels A moment of rupture: The white-haired woman Time, tense, and aspect Singing birds Divided and divined 'A going against': Coetzee, postmodernism, and late style Where is Coetzee? Authors and characters Her man and she The Ethics of Embodiment The ethics of embodiment: Philosophy and literature Costello's progress, human to ape The dark chamber: Ethics and ambiguity Two suspended elements: sentence, narrative, text The metaphor of the real Short fiction The Nature of It Museum The Scar Triptych Conclusions Foreground and background Late style The wrong question Postscript: A Bad Year References Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB13814209
• ISBN:
  • 9789042037014
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Amsterdam
• ページ数/冊数: 191 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA86070182