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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"J. M. Coetzee"”.
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From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee
One of the notable features of JM Coetzee's work is the portrayal in his novels, particularly in his 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, of worlds that often seem bleak and bereft of redemption. In this dissertation I will argue that there is a resonance in Coetzee's writing that goes beyond …
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Self and politics in the novels of J. M. Coetzee
… postcolonial resonances in the novels of J. M. Coetzee. As an Afrikaner writing in English against the grain of a mythic Afrikaner past Coetzee blends allegory, realism and poststructural narrative techniques to produce powerful critiques of colonial and postcolonial domination. Coetzee can be …
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The poetics of reciprocity in selected fictions by J. M. Coetzee
… the function of reciprocity in the work of J. M Coetzee. 1 "The I-You relation ... connects with larger things in the whole of [Coetzee's] work, what I would like to call broadly the poetics of reciprocity." (Attwell 1992: 58) This dissertation seeks to examine the poetics of reciprocity as an …
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Per un'etica della letteratura: la cornice il doppio legame nell'opera di J. M. Coetzee
The elusive fiction of J. M. Coetzee is not a work in which you can read fixed ethical stances. I suggest testing the potentialities of a logic based on frames and double binds in Coetzee's novels. A double bind is a dilemma in communication which consists on tho conflicting messages, with the …
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
… examines the writing of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee and its postcolonial interventions in modernism and postmodernism. Chapter I, ""The Postcolonial Sensibilities of the Native Alien,"" focuses on current postcolonial theoretical debates on resistance and authenticity; it then positions Rhys …
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Prison and Garden: Cape Town, Natural History and the Literary Imagination
… Watson, Zoë Wicomb and, in particular, J. M. Coetzee. Although it would hardly claim to be a literary history of Cape Town, it begins by asking what it might mean to read a history of the city through its literature. Yet moving beyond an initial enquiry into how (and at what cost) imaginative …
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Autobiographical subjects: Disability and social identity in life writing
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