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The Master of Petersburg

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2017-06-06
ISBN 10 : 9781524705534
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (535 downloads)

Download The Master of Petersburg in PDF Full Online Free by J. M. Coetzee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's life. Was the boy a suicide or a murder victim? Did he love his stepfather or despise him? Was he a disciple of the revolutionary Nechaev, who even now is somewhere in St. Petersburg pursuing a dream of apocalyptic violence? As he follows his stepson's ghost—and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy—Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.

Dostoevsky's Political Thought

Author : Richard Avramenko
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-05-23
ISBN 10 : 9780739173770
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (774 downloads)

Download Dostoevsky's Political Thought in PDF Full Online Free by Richard Avramenko and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Dostoevsky as a political thinker from his religious and philosophical foundation to nineteenth-century European politics and how themes that he had examined are still relevant for us today.

J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing

Author : David Attwell
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2015-09-29
ISBN 10 : 9780698406711
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (71 downloads)

Download J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing in PDF Full Online Free by David Attwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary novels J. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee's work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Drawing on Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks and research papers housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Attwell reveals the fascinating ways in which Coetzee's famous novels developed, sometimes through more than fifteen drafts. He convincingly shows that Coetzee's work is strongly autobiographical, and that his writing proceeds with never-ending self-reflection while it moves toward aesthetic detachment. Above all, Attwell argues, South Africa, with its history, language, landscape and conflicts, is much more present in his novels than we have realized. Having worked closely with Coetzee on Doubling the Point, a collection of essays and interviews, Attwell is an engaging, authoritative source. J.M. Coetzee and The Life of Writing is the first book-length study to make use of Coetzee's extensive archive. A fresh, engaging and moving take on one of the world's foremost literary figures, it is bound to change the way Coetzee is read.

Between Religion and Rationality

Author : Joseph Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-01
ISBN 10 : 9781400836536
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (53 downloads)

Download Between Religion and Rationality in PDF Full Online Free by Joseph Frank and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, literature, and history. Delving into the distinctions of the Russian novel as well as the conflicts between the religious peasant world and the educated Russian elite, Between Religion and Rationality displays the cogent reflections of one of the most distinguished and versatile critics in the field. Frank's essays provide a discriminating look at four of Dostoevsky's most famous novels, discuss the debate between J. M. Coetzee and Mario Vargas Llosa on the issue of Dostoevsky and evil, and confront Dostoevsky's anti-Semitism. The collection also examines such topics as Orlando Figes's sweeping survey of the history of Russian culture, the life of Pushkin, and Oblomov's influence on Samuel Beckett. Investigating the omnipresent religious theme that runs throughout Russian culture, even in the antireligious Chekhov, Frank argues that no other major European literature was as much preoccupied as the Russian with the tensions between religion and rationality. Between Religion and Rationality highlights this unique quality of Russian literature and culture, offering insights for general readers and experts alike.

J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual

Author : Jane Poyner
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 9780821416860
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (863 downloads)

Download J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual in PDF Full Online Free by Jane Poyner and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies.

Old Myths-modern Empires

Author : Michela Canepari-Labib
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 3039102621
Pages : 318 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (12 downloads)

Download Old Myths-modern Empires in PDF Full Online Free by Michela Canepari-Labib and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study gives substantial coverage and close critical attention to a wide range of Coetzee's published writings, in the attempt to situate his oeuvre within the framework of both postmodernist and postcolonial theory and criticism. In addition, it links the political and social aspects of Coetzee's work, its South African provenance and its often oblique engagement with contemporary issues, with formal questions regarding structure, rhetoric and narrative strategies as tackled in his novels. By approaching Coetzee's fiction from a variety of critical angles and taking into account both the transformations in the socio-political context of South Africa, and the recent changes in critical reception (exemplified by the Nobel Prize he was awarded in 2003) this book therefore offers a thorough assessment of the author's oeuvre.

Retelling Dostoyevsky

Author : Gary Adelman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 0838754732
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (754 downloads)

Download Retelling Dostoyevsky in PDF Full Online Free by Gary Adelman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It identifies motives particular to each novelist for his creative reuse of Dostoyevsky, and explores theoretic approaches to the problem of influence through Mikhail Bakhtin and Harold Bloom."--Jacket.

(Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction

Author : Dorota Guttfeld
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-21
ISBN 10 : 9781443846806
Pages : 395 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (85 downloads)

Download (Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction in PDF Full Online Free by Dorota Guttfeld and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In imagining history, one must inevitably rely on its textual representations, whether fictitious or supposedly “objective”, yet always subject to the constraints and conventions of textuality. Still, it is precisely by exploiting and consciously relying on the textual in the presentation of the past that contemporary authors, including politicians and makers of history, strive to provide it with current significance, emotional impact and universal meaning. The study of such attempts benefits from a variety of perspectives, encompassing not only classical, but also popular texts and media. An interdisciplinary collection of papers devoted to the issues of retelling, rewriting, and representation of the past in fiction and various text-types, this volume juxtaposes modern and post-modern understanding of collective versus personal history. The contributors are scholars specializing in literary studies (e.g. postcolonialism and popular fiction), linguistics (e.g. critical discourse analysis) and cultural studies (e.g. media studies), bringing a wide spectrum of theoretical insights into the field. The collection opens with papers on the general changes in viewing history that have occurred since the 19th century. Further papers discuss postcolonial, feminist and gender-related perspectives on history reflected in postmodern fiction, revealing the power struggle around the depiction of the past. The next part of the volume is devoted to the presentation of historical breakthroughs in political and media discourse. Finally, the collection draws attention to some unorthodox visions of history involving alternative worlds and fantastic elements encountered in the genre of speculative fiction.

J. M. Coetzee

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 9780521482325
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (321 downloads)

Download J. M. Coetzee in PDF Full Online Free by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and the question of how the author can combine an ethical and political consciousness with a commitment to the novel as a work of fiction. In this study, written in 1998, Dominic Head assesses Coetzee's position as a white South African writer engaged with the legacy of colonialism. Through close readings of all the novels, Head shows how Coetzee inhabits a transitional site between Europe and Africa, and it is from this position that his more general concerns emerge. Coetzee's engagement with the problems facing the postcolonial writer, Head argues, is always enriched by his awareness of a wider literary tradition.

J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship

Author : Jane Poyner
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
ISBN 10 : 9781317111641
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (648 downloads)

Download J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship in PDF Full Online Free by Jane Poyner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee's literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author's abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the "paradox of postcolonial authorship". Writers of conscience or conscience-stricken writers of the kind Coetzee portrays, whilst striving symbolically to bring the stories of the marginal and the oppressed to light, always risk reimposing the very authority they seek to challenge. From Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year, Poyner traces how Coetzee rehearses and revises his understanding of the ethics of intellectualism in parallel with the emergence of the "new South Africa". She contends that Coetzee's modernist aesthetics facilitate a more exacting critique of the problems that encumber postcolonial authorship, including the authority it necessarily engenders. Poyner is attentive to the ways Coetzee's writing addresses the writer's proper role with respect to the changing ethical demands of contemporary political life. Theoretically sophisticated and accessible, her book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Nobel Laureate and to postcolonial studies.

Acts of Visitation

Author : María J. López
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 10 : 9789401206945
Pages : 344 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (945 downloads)

Download Acts of Visitation in PDF Full Online Free by María J. López and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces, in J.M. Coetzee's fictional and non-fictional production, an imaginative and intellectual masterplot deriving from Coetzee's perception of European presence in (South) Africa as having its origin in an act of illegitimate penetration and fraudulent visitation. In Coetzee's novels, the historical and political problem of a hostile occupation and unfair distribution of the land finds a correspondence in the domestic space of house and farm, and the uneasy cohabitation of its occupants, along with the relation between hosts and guests. The seminal dimension of the categories of penetration and visitation is highlighted, as these are shown to operate not only on a spatial level but also on an epistemological, physical, psychological, hermeneutic, metafictional and ethical one: we encounter literary and psychological secrets that resist decipherment, bodies that cannot be penetrated, writers depicted as intruders, parents that ask to be welcomed by their children. This study also identifies, in Coetzee's narrative, an ethical proposal grounded on a logic of excess and unconditionality - a logic of 'not enough' - lying behind certain acts of hospitality, friendship, kindness, care, and guidance to the gate of death, acts that may transform prevailing unequal socio-historical conditions and hostile personal relationships, characterized by a logic of parasitism and intrusion. As the figure of the writer progressively gains explicit prominence in Coetzee's literary production, special attention will be paid to it, as it alternately appears as secretary and master, migrant and intruder, pervert and foe, citizen and neighbour. Overall, "Acts of Visitation "analyzes how Coetzee's works depict the (South) African land, the Karoo farm, the familial household or the writer's and literary character's house as simultaneously contending and redemptive sites in which urgent historical, ethical, and metafictional issues are spatially explored and dramatized.

J. M. Coetzee

Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-01-23
ISBN 10 : 9781501357497
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (492 downloads)

Download J. M. Coetzee in PDF Full Online Free by Anthony Uhlmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee's writing. In doing so, it makes the case for Coetzee as an important and original thinker in his own right. Whilst looking at Coetzee's writing career, from his dissertation through to The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and interpreting running themes and scenarios, style and evolving attitudes to literary form, Anthony Uhlmann also offers revealing glimpses, informed by archival research, of Coetzee's writing process. Among the main themes that Uhlmann sees in Coetzee's writing, and which remains highly relevant today, is the awareness that there is truth in fiction, or that fiction can provide valuable insights into real world problems, and that there are also fictions of the truth: that we are surrounded, in our everyday lives, by stories we wish to believe are true. J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction offers a revealing new account of one of arguably our most important contemporary writers.

Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism

Author : Marek Pawlicki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-03
ISBN 10 : 9781443863476
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (475 downloads)

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Père-versions of the Truth

Author : Sławomir Masłoń
Publisher : Uniwersytet Slaski
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 9788322617212
Pages : 234 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (216 downloads)

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Applying: To Derrida

Author : J. Brannigan
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 1997-01-12
ISBN 10 : 9781349250776
Pages : 239 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (775 downloads)

Download Applying: To Derrida in PDF Full Online Free by J. Brannigan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-01-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking out from a number of new headings and in a number of new directions each of the essays in this collection pushes at the borders of their topics, disciplines and ways of thinking, providing innovative and inventive insights into the work - and application - of Jacques Derrida on a diverse range of themes including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love, tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy, translation, otherness and literature, demonstrating that, today, despite repeated accusations over recent years that the work of Derrida has become passe, there is more vitality and spirit in engaging with the writings of Derrida than ever before.

J. M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative

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Publisher : Cambria Press
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781621968993
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (995 downloads)

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J.M. Coetzee and the Novel

Author : Patrick Hayes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-08-12
ISBN 10 : 9780191591587
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (58 downloads)

Download J.M. Coetzee and the Novel in PDF Full Online Free by Patrick Hayes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Anti-illusionism is, I suspect, only a marking of time, a phase of recuperation, in the history of the novel. The question is, what next?' (J.M. Coetzee) Patrick Hayes argues that the significance of Coetzees fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novelranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Beckettas part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics. For Coetzee, questions about the future of the novel are closely related to what it means to write after Beckett, and J. M. Coetzee and the Novel examines the ways in which his fiction discerningly assimilates the techniques of literary modernism to engage with some of the most troubling aspects of late twentieth-century cultural and political life. While Coetzee is rightly known as an intensely serious writer, Hayes shows that the true seriousness of his writing is intimately bound up with comedyor, to use the word Coetzee borrows from Joyce, the jocoserious. Opening up a range of new approaches to this major contemporary author, J. M. Coetzee and the Novel argues that it is only by paying especially close attention to the experience of reading Coetzees finely-nuanced prose that his distinctive impact on longstanding questions about identity, community, and the nature of political modernity can be appreciated.