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04925aam a2200385 i 4500 001 EDFA37141DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 200303t20212021enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020010878 020 $a 1350138428 020 $a 9781350138421 035 $a (OCoLC)1143823824 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d NLMAA $d SFB $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR9369.3.C58 $b Z653 2021 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Elmgren, Charlotta, $e author. 245 10 $a J. M. Coetzee's poetics of the child : $b Arendt, Agamben, and the (ir)responsibilities of literary creation / $c Charlotta Elmgren. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 189 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee's fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee's poetics. Through readings of novels from Dusklands to The Schooldays of Jesus, Charlotta Elmgren shows how Coetzee's writing stages the constant interplay between irresponsibility and responsibility-to the self, the other, and the world. In articulating this poetics of (ir)responsibility, Elmgren offers the first sustained engagement with the intersections between the writing of J.M. Coetzee and the philosophical thought of Giorgio Agamben. Key to the argument is Agamben's idea of infancy, the experience of holding thought in suspense, which is shown to productively complement earlier critical perspectives that, drawing on Blanchot, Levinas, and Derrida, find in Coetzee's writing an ethics of hospitality to an alterity that is always yet to emerge. With reference also to Hannah Arendt's thinking on natality and education, Elmgren demonstrates the inextricable links in Coetzee's writing between freedom, play, and serious attention to the world. The book is structured around five central dynamics of a "poetics of the child" in Coetzee's works: the child as a figure of truth-telling and authenticity; the ethics of the not-so-other child; the child, new beginnings and care for the world; infancy and the poetics of perpetual study; and the redemptive potential of the nonposition of infancy. Offering a fresh contribution to the field of literary childhood studies, this study shows the critical possibilities in thinking about-and with-childlike openness and childish experimentation when approaching the writing and reading of the work of J.M. Coetzee and beyond"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index. 505 0 $a Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The child in Coetzee: A story waiting to be told -- Towards a poetics of the child -- From Levinas and Derrida to Agamben and Arendt -- Writing and the child -- The child as the object of writerly desire -- The writer as child -- Conceptions of the child -- 'The child' -- a fluid concept -- The child and the fully human -- A figure of openness and possibility -- Outline -- 1 The story of the (un)romantic child: Innocence, truth, and first fictions of the self -- Fragments of childhoods 505 8 $a (Un)romantic children -- Navigating fictions -- Moments of openness -- Authentic encounters: From self to other -- 2 Ethics of the not-so-other child -- The savage-as-child-as-self -- Children of iron -- Ethics of indeterminacy -- 3 The child between past and future -- Natality and the event -- Worrying about the child -- Getting beyond death -- Amor mundi and transmissibility -- The interregnum, freedom, and writing -- Pedagogy and play -- From natality to infancy -- 4 Childish behaviour: The poetics of study -- From waiting to 'pressing on' -- The incessant shuttling of study 505 8 $a Grasping the potentialities of the present -- Impotentiality and the curious state of infancy -- Embracing uncertainty -- From childish to childlike -- 5 The redemptive nonposition of infancy -- The burdensome search for truth -- Infancy and language as such -- Being like a child: 'The revocation of every vocation' -- Infancy and ethics -- Writing and redemption -- Coda -- References -- Index -- Copyright Page 600 10 $a Coetzee, J. M., $d 1940- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Coetzee, J. M., $d 1940- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00117350 650 0 $a Children in literature. 650 7 $a Children in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00855252 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Elmgren, Charlotta. $t J. M. Coetzee's poetics of the child $d London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. $z 9781350138438 $w (DLC) 2020010879 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EDFA37141DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search