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  title info:
    title: Literary cynics
    sub title: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee
  name:
    name part: Rose, Arthur
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Literary Cynics reconsiders the meaqnings of words like cynicism and cosmopolitanism for Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, testing the limits of their merely cynical cosmopolitanism. Arthur Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics, Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to a 'late style,' Rose demonstrates how these writers develop rhetorical strategies for coping with fame, cosmopolitanism and aesthetic form that become useful when returning to the canonical texts of their respective 'high' periods. In addition to these 'late' works, Literary Cynics offers a rigorous rapprochement to classic, lesser known and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee's Disgrace to Beckett's letters.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations Introduction -- Paradox One: Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee -- 1. Defacing the Currency of Cosmopolitan Fame -- i. Fame -- ii. Cosmopolitanism -- iii. Cynical Cosmopolitans -- Paradox Two: Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth -- 2. Borges's Parables -- i. Biographical Performance -- ii. Writerly Parables -- iii. Historical Parables -- Paradox Three: Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox -- 3. Beckett's Antinomical Theatre -- i. Ohio Impromptu -- ii. Catastrophe -- iii. What Where -- Paradox Four: Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa -- 4. Coetzee's Enantiosemiotic Lessons -- i. The Diatribe -- ii. The Essay -- Paradox Five: Creaturely Dog Men -- Conclusion: On Mere Life -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Arthur Rose.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Borges, Jorge Luis
      name part: 1899-1986
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Beckett, Samuel
      name part: 1906-1989
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Coetzee, J. M
      name part: 1940-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Cynicism in literature
  classification: PN771 .R55 2017
  classification: 809/.04
  identifier: 9781474258647
  identifier: 1474258646
  identifier: 9781474258661
  identifier: 9781474258678
  identifier: 2016052100
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170315
    record change date: 20170516095501.0
    record identifier: in00003831510