J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression
A Reconsideration of Metalepsis
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee's novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On...
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This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee's novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee's writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers.This study analyzes Coetzee's novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author's relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee's Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee's engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.
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Prologue.- Introduction: Metalepsis as Ethics.- 1. Author and Character: Of Authors, Foes, and Figurations.- 2. Author and Reader: Communication, Creation, and Care.- 3. Author and Self: Accounting for Voices and Worlds.- Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt von Alexandra Effe
Alexandra Effe is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Giessen University, Germany. She has published articles on autobiographical writing and on literary and narrative theory.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexandra Effe
- 2017, 1st ed. 2017, XVI, 172 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319601008
- ISBN-13: 9783319601007
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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"J.M Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression constitutes a valuable assessment of Coetzee's oeuvre with regard to its ethical engagement of authorship and readership. ... It represents a meaningful and persuasive addition to contemporary literary studies and narratology, such that not only students and scholars interested in Coetzee will find this book useful and accessible." (Melissa Schuh, English Studies, Vol. 100 (3), 2019)Kommentar zu "J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression"
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