J. M. Coetzee novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work.
The volume covers a wealth of topics, including:
· The full span of Coetzee's work from his poetry to his essays and major fiction, including Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels
· Biographical details and archival approaches
· Coetzee's sources and influences, including engagements with Modernism, South African, Australian, Russian and Latin American literatures
· Interdisciplinary perspectives, including on visual cultures, music, philosophy, computational systems and translation.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee provides indispensable scholarly perspectives, covers emerging debates and maps the future direction of Coetzee studies.
Recenzijas
The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, to my mind, effects such a deepening in informative and often powerful ways. While of primary interest to the specialist, it will be a valuable point of reference for anyone who has been stirred by the reach and depth of Coetzees writing, and, who, like the boy David and his guardian Simón in the Schooldays of Jesus (2016), attempts to execute new steps and thereby learn to dance the universe. * Australian Book Review * This book offers an extraordinary and exciting array of information, ideas, insights, as well as assessments and unexpected contexts, about Coetzees life and works. Its comprehensiveness is really quite remarkable. The perceptive, thoughtful essays quickly challenged me into thinking afresh and anewI found myself immediately propelled back to Coetzees books on my shelves and starting to reread them. Every admirer of Coetzee will want to have this book by their side. * Robert J.C. Young, Professor of English, New York University, USA * Like many innovative writers, J. M. Coetzee has always been wary of what he once called the critics games handbook. Thankfully, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee heeds this caution. Assembling an impressive array of established and emergent critics, this welcome, even game-changing collection opens Coetzees astonishing oeuvre for a new generation of readers in myriad productive ways * Peter D. McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, UK *
Papildus informācija
A comprehensive exploration of contemporary scholarship on the work of J.M. Coetzee, with chapters by more than 35 leading scholars from across the world.
Part One: Life, Institutions, Reception
1. On the idea of a handbook to the works of J. M. Coetzee: Preposterous
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Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham
2. Life & times of J. M. Coetzee
Jane Poyner
3. Autobiographies/autrebiographies/biographies
Alexandra Effe
4. J. M. Coetzee and his publishers
Andrea Thorpe
Part Two: Early Coetzee
5. Coetzees poetry
Jarad Zimbler
6. Dusklands
Rita Barnard
7. In the Heart of the Country
Ian Glenn
8. Waiting for the Barbarians
Jennifer Wenzel
9. Life & Times of Michael K
Eckard Smuts
Part Three: Late- and post-apartheid Coetzee
10. Foe
Patrick Flanery
11. Age of Iron
Katherine Hallemeier
12. The Master of Petersburg
Derek Attridge
13. Disgrace
Chris Holmes
14. J. M. Coetzees apartheid-era criticism
Xiaoran Hu
Part Four: Late-style Coetzee
15. The Costello project
Andrew van der Vlies
16. Diary of a Bad Year
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
17. The Jesus novels
Timothy Bewes
18. Later criticism and correspondence
Nick Mulgrew
Part Five: Style, Form, Ideas
19. Coetzees style
Carrol Clarkson
20. Coetzee, religion and philosophy
Alice Brittan
21. Coetzee, gender and sexuality
Laura Wright
22. Coetzee and the nonhuman
Daniel Williams
23. Coetzee, computers and binary thinking
Rebecca Roach
24. Coetzees humour
Huw Marsh
25. Education and the novels of J. M. Coetzee
Aparna Mishra Tarc
Part Six: Contexts, Intertexts, Influence
26. Coetzee and the history of the novel
Andrew Dean
27. Coetzees South Africans
Jan Steyn
28. Coetzees modernists
Paul Sheehan
29. Coetzees Mitteleuropa and Austro-Hungary
Russell Samolsky
30. Coetzee, Israel, Palestine
Louise Bethlehem, Dalia Abu-Sbitan and Shir Dannon
31. Coetzees Russians
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
32. Coetzees Latin America
Magalķ Armillas-Tiseyra
33. Coetzees Australians
Michelle Cahill
Part Seven: Intermediation, adaptation, translation
34. Coetzee and photography
Hermann Wittenberg
35. Coetzee and the visual arts
Sean OToole
36. J. M. Coetzee and the work of music
Graham K. Riach
37. Adapting Coetzee for the stage and screen
Ed Charlton
38. Coetzee and translation
Jan Wilm
Index
Andrew van der Vlies is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide, Australia. and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His previous books include Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (2017), South African Textual Cultures (2007), and, as editor or co-editor, Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa (2012), Zoė Wicomb's Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays (2018), and South African Writing in Transition (2019).
Lucy Valerie Graham is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
