J. M. Coetzee and the politics of style/ Jarad Zimbler.
Publication details: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: vii, 232 pISBN:- 9781107046252
- 823 COE 09 Q4
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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.
"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"--
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