Critical Perspectives on J. M. Coetzee
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 246 pages
978-1-349-24313-6 (ISBN)
Description
Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee is one of the first collections of critical essays on this major contemporary writer. The essays, written by an international cast of contributors, adopt a variety of approaches to Coetzee's often controversial work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's oeuvre, as well as essays that analyse in more detail individual Coetzee novels. The collection also includes a preface by Coetzee's fellow South African, the internationally acclaimed writer Nadine Gordimer.
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Edition
1st ed. 1996
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XVI, 246 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-24313-6 (9781349243136)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-24311-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Nadine Gordimer | Graham Huggan | Stephen Watson
Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee
Book
01/1995
St Martin's Press
€75.15
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Content
Notes on Contributors - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Preface; N.Gordimer - Introduction; G.Huggan & S.Watson - PART 1 - Colonialism and the Novels of J.M. Coetzee; S.Watson - Speech and Silence in the Fictions of J.M. Coetzee; B.Parry - The Hermeneutics of Empire: Coetzee's Post-Colonial Metafiction; M.Marais - J.M. Coetzee: The Postmodern and the Postcolonial; K.Parker - PART 2 - Dusklands: A Metaphysics of Violence; P.Knox-Shaw - Game Hunting in In the Heart of the Country; I.Glenn - Waiting for the Barbarians: Allegory of Allegories; T.Dovey - Audible Palimpsests: Coetzee's Kafka; P.Merivale - Oppressive Silence: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the Politics of Canonization; D.Attridge - Evolution and Entropy in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron; G.Huggan - Afterword; D.Attwell - Works Cited - Biographical Notes - Index