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In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals, and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel Elizabeth Costello; and both lectures and novel have attracted the critical attention of a number of influential philosophers--including Peter Singer, Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, and John McDowell. In The Wounded Animal, Stephen Mulhall closely examines Coetzee's writings about Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them, focusing in particular on their powerful presentation of both literature and philosophy as seeking, and failing, to represent reality--in part because of reality's resistance to such projects of understanding, but also because of philosophy's unwillingness to learn from literature how best to acknowledge that resistance. In so doing, Mulhall is led to consider the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature here displays undiminished vigor and renewed significance.

Literature --- Animals (Philosophy) --- Philosophy in literature. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Theory --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell,

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How do individuals, who are part of a community, respond to the stranger as a stranger: i.e. without simply positioning this outsider in opposition to the community in which they are located? How may individuals receive something unknown and therefore surprising into their world without compromising it by identifying it in the terms of that world? In this study, Mike Marais traces the various ways in which Coetzee’s fiction, from Dusklands through to Slow Man, repeatedly poses such questions of hospitality. It is shown that the form of ethical action staged in Coetzee’s writing is grounded not in the individual’s willed and rational achievement, but in his or her invasion and possession by the strangeness of the stranger. This ethic of hospitality, Marais argues, has a strong aesthetic dimension: for Coetzee, the writer is inspired to write by being acted upon by a force from beyond the phenomenal world. The writer is a secretary of the invisible. She or he is responsible to and for the invisible. Marais maintains that this understanding of writing as an involuntary response to that which exceeds history is evident from the first in Coetzee’s fiction. In readings of the novels of the apartheid era, he traces this writer’s rueful, ironic awareness of the limited, even incidental, form of political engagement that may emanate from such an aesthetic. He then goes on to argue that if it is the writer’s obligation to render visible the invisible, writing must be a task that can never be completed. What is more, such writing is thus bound to be iterative in form. With this in mind, he traces the structural similarities between Coetzee’s writing of the apartheid period and his post-apartheid and Australian writing, arguing that the later texts are self-reflexively aware of their endlessly repetitive nature.

Hospitality in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Hospitality in literature. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell

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Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves critical essays on Coetzee’s works with an autobiographical narrative detailing MacFarlane’s more personal response to her reading and writing. The presentation of elements of the creative with the critical, and the critical within the creative, aims to challenge the traditional boundary between the two. This kind of methodology derives from the idea (and practice) of embodiment: that an idea or philosophy does not ‘float free’, but is tied to the idiosyncrasies, divergences, and subjective ‘travel’ of its speaker or writer.Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year explicitly address themes which abide more surreptitiously throughout his oeuvre: the divisions and paradoxes which occur the moment pen gains page, the value of literature, and the ethics of embodiment. In revealing the dialogue between writer-self and reader-self, and between author and character, these recent novels invite a rereading of Coetzee’s previous literature. Reading Coetzee explores Coetzee’s preoccupation with the act of writing using his recent books as a lens through which to view his eight previous novels as well as his memoirs and essays.

Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John Maxwell --- English literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell,

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J. M. Coetzee's early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee's first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee's writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee's indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzee's own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a 'politics of style'. In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee's oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood.

Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell,

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Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world’s leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee’s work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee’s work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the ‘politics’ and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee’s very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.

Coetzee, John Maxwell --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature and history --- Literature and society --- Politics and literature --- History --- Coetzee, J. M., --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Coetzee, John Maxwell (1940-....) --- Critique et interprétation