J.M. Coetzee & the ethics of reading : literature in the event

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Title:

Author:

Attridge, Derek.

ISBN:

9781869140649

Personal Author:

Attridge, Derek.

Publication Information:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

xv, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Modernist form and the ethics of otherness : Dusklands and In the heart of the country -- Against allegory : Waiting for the barbarians and Life & times of Michael K -- The silence of the canon : Foe -- Trusting the other : Age of iron -- Expecting the unexpected : The master of Petersburg -- Confessing in the third person : Boyhood and Youth -- Age of bronze, state of grace : Disgrace -- Epilogue : a writer's life : Elizabeth Costello.

Personal Subject:

Coetzee, J. M., 1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Modernism (Literature) -- South Africa.

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

Ethics in literature.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- In literature.

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Summary

Nobel prize winning novelist, Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive.