J. M. Coetzee and the politics of style /
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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Neither progress, nor regress: Dusklands and the emergence of literary style
- 2. New dimensions: In the heart of the country's repetitions
- 3. Poetry and perspective: lyrical and rhythmic intensity in Waiting for the barbarians
- 4. Native traditions and strange practices: the metaphorics of Life & times of Michael K
- 5. From bare life to soul language: the old-fashioned speech of Coetzee's middle fiction
- Conclusion.