J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Zimbler Jarad
This is the first book-length study of the distinctive style of J. M. Coetzee's early and middle fictions.
J. M. Coetzee's early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee's first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee's writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee's indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzee's own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a 'politics of style'. In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee's oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood.
Introduction; 1. Neither progress, nor regress; 2. New dimensions; 3. Lyrical situation and rhythmic intensity; 4. Native traditions and strange practices; 5. From bare life to soul language; Conclusion.
Jarad Zimbler is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published articles on book history, Pierre Bourdieu and postcolonial pedagogy, and is co-editor of Crafts of World Literature: Field, Material and Translation, a special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Date de parution : 06-2014
Ouvrage de 242 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 04-2016
Ouvrage de 242 p.
15.3x23 cm
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