ISBN10: 0199587957, ISBN13: 9780199587957, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 'Anti-illusionism is, I suspect, only a marking of time, a phase of recuperation, in the history of the novel. The question is, what next?' (J.M. Coetzee) Patrick Hayes argues that the significance of Coetzees fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novelranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Beckettas part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationshipbetween writing and politics. For Coetzee, questions about the future of the novel are closely related to what it means to write after Beckett, and J. M. Coetzee and the Novel examines the ways in whichhis fiction discerningly assimilates the techniques of literary modernism to engage with some of the most troubling aspects of late twentieth-century cultural and political life. While Coetzee is rightly known as an intensely serious writer, Hayes shows that the true seriousness of his writing is intimately bound up with comedyor, to use the word Coetzee borrows from Joyce, the jocoserious. Opening up a range of new approaches to this major contemporary author, J. M.Coetzee and the Novel argues that it is only by paying especially close attention to the experience of reading Coetzees finely-nuanced prose that his distinctive impact on longstanding questions aboutidentity, community, and the nature of political ...
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ISBN10: 0199587957, ISBN13: 9780199587957, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2010 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 276 p. Oxford English Monographs.

Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2010 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 276 p. Oxford English Monographs.

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Hardback. New. This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Beckett - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics. ISBN 0199587957 9780199587957 [GB]