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Contributes to an ongoing debate in Coetzee criticism about ethics, politics, and form
Integrates the work of the leading critics in the field, such as Clarkson, Hayes, Attwell and Attridge
Combines theoretical argument and narratalogical analysis
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.
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Book Title: J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression
Book Subtitle: A Reconsideration of Metalepsis
Authors: Alexandra Effe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60101-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60100-7Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86777-9Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60101-4Published: 16 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 172
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, African Literature, Literary Theory