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A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
Contributor(s): Mehigan, Tim (Editor), Clarkson, Carrol (Contribution by), Ackerley, Chris (Contribution by)

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 ISBN: 1571139028     ISBN-13: 9781571139023
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
OUR PRICE: $36.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 823.914
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.81 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two Booker Prizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in chronological order and introducing the dominant themes in the academic discussion of his oeuvre.

The volume highlights Coetzee's exceptionally nuanced approach to writing as both an exacting craft and a challenging moral-ethical undertaking. It discusses Coetzee's complex relation to apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, the land of his birth, and evaluates his complicated responses to the literary canon. Coetzee emerges as both a modernist and a highly self-aware postmodernist - a champion of the truths of a literary enterprise conducted unrelentingly in the mode of self-confession.

CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Ackerley, Derek Attridge, Carrol Clarkson, Simone Drichel, Johan Geertsema, David James, Michelle Kelly, Sue Kossew, Mike Marais, James Meffan, Tim Mehigan, Chris Prentice, Engelhard Weigl, Kim L. Worthington.

TIM MEHIGAN is Professor of Languages in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Honorary Professor in the Department of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Contributor Bio(s): Mehigan, Tim: - Tim Mehigan is professor of German and head of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Melbourne.
 
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