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Title:

J.M. Coetzee and the idea of the public intellectual / edited by Jane Poyner.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

vii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Coetzee, J. M.,--1940---Criticism and interpretation.
Politics and literature--South Africa--History--20th century.
Animal rights.
South Africa--In literature.

Other Authors:

Poyner, Jane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Jane Poyner -- The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J.M. Coetzee and the public sphere / David Attwell -- The writer, the critic, and the censor : J.M. Coetzee and the question of literature / Peter D. McDonald -- Against allegory : 'Waiting for the barbarians,' 'Life & times of Michael K,' and the question of literary reading / Derek Attridge -- Death and the space of the response to the other in J.M. Coetzee's 'The master of Petersburg' / Michael Marais -- A belief in frogs : J.M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction / Dominic Head -- J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination / Sam Durrant -- Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace' / Elleke Boehmer -- Going to the dogs : humanity in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace,' 'The lives of animals,' and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Rosemary Jolly -- What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men / Michael Bell -- A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J.M. Coetzee's 'The life of animals' / Laura Wright -- Textual transvestism : the female voices of J.M. Coetzee / Lucy Graham.

ISBN:

9780821416877
9780821416860
9780821416877 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821416871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821416860 (alk. paper)
0821416863 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)67239997

LCCN:

2006011612

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)