Reading Coetzee
By: Elizabeth MacFarlane
Series: Consciousness, literature & the arts -- 34; Consciousness, literature & the arts -- 34.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789042037014
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Just as J. M. Coetzee's post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves critical essays on Coetzee's works with an autobiographical narrative detailing MacFarlane's more personal response to her reading and writing. The presentation of elements of the creative with the critical, and the critical within the creative, aims to challenge the traditional boundary between the two. This kind of methodology derives from the idea (and practice) of embodiment: that an idea or philosophy does not 'float free', but is tied to the idiosyncrasies, divergences, and subjective 'travel' of its speaker or writer." -- Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index.