Part One: Life, institutions, receptions. On the idea of a handbook to the works of J.M. Coetzee : "Preposterous [?]" / Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham -- Life & times of J. M. Coetzee / Jane Poyner -- Autobiographies/autrebiographies/biographies / Alexandra Effe -- J.M. Coetzee and his publishers / Andrea Thorpe -- Part Two: Early Coetzee. Coetzee's poetry / Jarad Zimbler -- Dusklands / Rita Barnard -- In the heart of the country / Ian Glenn -- Waiting for the barbarians / Jennifer Wenzel -- Life & times of Michael K / Eckard Smuts -- Part Three: Late and post-apartheid Coetzee. Foe / Patrick Flanery -- Age of iron / Katherine Hallemeier -- The master of Petersburg / Derek Attridge -- Disgrace / Chris Holmes -- J. M. Coetzee's apartheid-era criticism / Xiaoran Hu -- Part Four: Late-style Coetzee. The Costello project / Andrew van der Vlies -- Diary of a bad year / Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice -- The Jesus novels / Timothy Bewes -- Later criticism and correspondence / Nick Mulgrew -- Part Five: Style, form, ideas. Coetzee's style / Carrol Clarkson -- Coetzee, religion and philosophy / Alice Brittan -- Coetzee, gender and sexuality / Laura Wright -- Coetzee and the nonhuman / Daniel Williams -- Coetzee, computers and binary thinking / Rebecca Roach -- Coetzee's humour / Huw Marsh -- Education and the novels of J.M. Coetzee / Aparna Mishra Tarc -- Part Six: Contexts, intertexts, influence. Coetzee and the history of the novel / Andrew Dean -- Coetzee's South Africans / Jan Steyn -- Coetzee's modernists / Paul Sheehan -- Coetzee's Mitteleuropa and Austro-Hungary / Russell Samolsky -- Coetzee, Israel, Palestine / Louise Bethlehem, Dalia Abu-Sbitan and Shir Dannon -- Coetzee's Russians / Jeanne-Marie Jackson -- Coetzee's Latin America / Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra -- Coetzee's Australians / Michelle Cahill -- Part Seven: Intermediation, adaptation, translation. Coetzee and photography / Hermann Wittenberg -- Coetzee and the visual arts / Sean O'Toole -- J.M. Coetzee and the work of music / Graham K. Riach -- Adapting Coetzee for the stage and screen / Ed Charlton -- Coetzee and translation / Jan Wilm.
Summary:
J. M. Coetzee novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, this book offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.