The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee (Web PDF) von Tim Mehigan

New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer.

Introduction: Coetzee's Intellectual Landscapes - Tim Mehigan and Christian Moser
J. M. Coetzee on Truth, Skepticism, and Secular Confession in "The Age We Live In" - Tim Mehigan
Social Order and Transcendence: J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of Play - Christian Moser
Autobiography and Romantic Irony: J. M. Coetzee and Roland Barthes - Patrick Hayes
The Semantics of Barbarism in J. M. Coetzee's NovelWaiting for the Barbarians - Markus Winkler
In the Heart of the Empire: Coetzee and America - Martin Woessner
Faith, Irony, Salt and Possible Impossibilities: J. M. Coetzee'sThe Childhood of Jesus in Conversation with Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology" - Maria Boletsi
Coetzee's Ethics of Language(s) - Robert Stockhammer
Force Fields - Carrol Clarkson
The Reading ofDon Quixote: Literature's Migration into a New World - Alexander Honold
The Lives of Animals: From Rational Language to Speaking (of) Lions - Elisa Aaltola
Coetzee as Academic Novelist - Simon During
Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the Kafka Lineage - Derek Attrige
J. M. Coetzee's South African Intellectual Landscapes - David Attwell
Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee'sElizabeth Costello - Robert B. Pippin
Cosmpolitanism, the Range of Sympathy, and Coetzee - Anton Leist
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