Download or read book Pedagogy in the Novels of J M Coetzee written by Aparna Mishra Tarc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically analyzing the representation of pedagogy in the novels of J.M. Coetzee, this insightful text illustrates the author’s profound conception of learning and personal development as something which takes place well beyond formal education. Bringing together critical and educational theory, Pedagogy in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee examines depictions of pedagogy in novels including Age of Iron, Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace, and Childhood of Jesus. Engaging with Coetzee’s varied literary use of pedagogical themes such as motherhood, maternal love, and the importance of childhood interactions, reading, and experiences, chapters demonstrate how Coetzee foregrounds pedagogy as intrinsic to the formation of human actors, society, and civilization. The text thereby aptly explores and broadens our understanding of education - what it is, what it achieves, and how it can affect and shape human existence. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of pedagogy, postcolonial studies, educational theory and philosophy, and English literature.
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Coetzee s Disgrace and Other Works written by Laura Wright and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose that avoids obvious answers or easy ethical reassurance. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," identifies secondary materials, including multimedia and Internet resources, that will help instructors guide their students through the contextual and formal complexities of Coetzee's fiction. In part 2, "Approaches," essays discuss how to teach works that are sometimes suspicious of teachers and teaching. The essays aim to help instructors negotiate Coetzee's ironies and allegories in his treatment of human relationships in a changing South Africa and of the shifting connections between human beings and the biosphere.
Download or read book Encountering Disgrace written by William E. McDonald and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. David Lurie as he encounters disgrace through his sexual exploitation of a student and then through the shocking gang-rape of his only daughter. The novel's uncompromising portrayal of the "new" South Africa outraged many, who found the book regressive, even racist. It also challenged readers worldwide to confront its hard questions. This first book of essays devoted to the novel ambitiously brings together criticism and pedagogy. The ten critical essays and eight essays on teaching Disgrace grapple with the ethical issues the novel so provocatively raises: rape, gender, race, animal rights. Disgrace is widely taught in colleges and universities and read in book clubs; the debates it has given rise to will take on fresh life with the release of the upcoming film starring John Malkovich. Unusually, the eighteen contributors to the collection are all faculty members or graduates of the same institution, the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, and have worked together closely in crafting their essays over the past two years. The volume will be exceptionally useful to teachers of literature, philosophy, and South African culture, to book club leaders, and to all readers of Coetzee. Contributors: Nancy Best, James Boobar, Bradley Butterfield, Jane Creighton, Matthew Gray, Pat Harrigan, Gary Hawkins, Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Daniel Kiefer, Bill McDonald, Michael G. McDunnah, Kim Middleton, Kevin O'Neill, Raymond Obstfeld, Kathy Ogren, Kenneth Reinhard, Sandra D. Shattuck, Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, Julie Townsend. Bill McDonald is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California.
Download or read book J M Coetzee and the Politics of Style written by Jarad Zimbler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Open Secrets written by Michael Bell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret refers not to a revealed mystery but to an utterance that is not understood, the likely fate of any instruction based purely on authority. Revisiting the European Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the tutor or mentor figure rather than with the usual focus on the young hero. The argument is not confined to works of fiction, however, but examines texts in which the category of fiction has a crucial and constitutive function, for a growing awareness of limited authority on the part of the mentor figures is closely related to fictive self-consciousness in the texts. Rousseau's Emile, as a semi-novelised treatise, whose fictiveness is at once overt and yet unmarked, is relatively unaware of the imaginary nature of its envisaged authority. Passing through Laurence Sterne, C. M. Wieland, Goethe and Nietzsche, the situation is gradually reversed, culminating with the conscious impasse of authority in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. All these writers have achieved their pedagogical impact despite, indeed by means of, their internal scepticism. By contrast, in the three subsequent writers, D. H. Lawrence, F. R. Leavis and J. M. Coetzee, the impasse of pedagogical authority becomes more literal as the authority of Bildung is eroded in the wider culture. The awareness of pedagogical authority as a species of fiction, to be conducted in an aesthetic spirit, remains a significant prophylactic against the perennial pressure of reductive conceptions of the education as form of instructional 'production'.
Download or read book J M Coetzee and the Power of Narrative written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to J M Coetzee written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview for students and readers of the work, career and international context of the author of Disgrace.
Download or read book Critical Essays on J M Coetzee written by Sue Kossew and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains sixteen articles and essayslinked by their attention to central issues raised in Coetzee s writing such as the relationships between autobiography and fiction, literature and politics, sexuality and textuality, feminist poetics and fiction-making, and Apartheid. Edited and introduced by Coetzee scholar, Dr. Sue Kossew, this volume offers the reader and excellent opportunity to grasp the wide range of interpretations his books welcome." - BookDepository.
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on J M Coetzee written by Graham Huggan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-02-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee is one of the first collections of critical essays on this major contemporary writer. The essays, written by an international cast of contributors, adopt a variety of approaches to Coetzee's often controversial work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's oeuvre, as well as essays that analyse in more detail individual Coetzee novels. The collection also includes a preface by Coetzee's fellow South African, the internationally acclaimed writer Nadine Gordimer.
Download or read book J M Coetzee in Context and Theory written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to J M Coetzee written by Lucy Valerie Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form written by Matthew Cheney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of the author in times of crisis? Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form examines how Virginia Woolf, Samuel R. Delany, and J. M. Coetzee developed literary strategies in common to cope with crisis periods they were anticipating, living through, or looking back on. Matthew Cheney outlines how the three writers shaped their art to create an author/audience relationship congruent with the goals of critical pedagogy espoused by such thinkers as Paulo Freire and bell hooks. Seeking to stimulate ethical thought, Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee required their readers to be active interpreters of their texts' forms, contents, and contexts. By pushing against fiction's fictionality, these writers of very different backgrounds, geographies, privileges, situations, tastes, and styles discovered complex ways to address the world wars in England, the AIDS crisis in New York, and apartheid in South Africa, going so far as to question the value of fiction itself.
Download or read book J M Coetzee and the Novel written by Patrick Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book J M Coetzee s Austerities written by Graham Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Universe of hi stories written by Liliana Sikorska and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains papers written by international scholars concerned with the works by the Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. The papers cover a wide range of topics from the introduction to South African English literature through J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical works to his most controversial Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace.
Download or read book Self and Politics in the Novels of J M Coetzee written by John Shepard Casey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the autodiegetic, psychological, colonial and postcolonial resonances in the novels of J. M. Coetzee. As an Afrikaner writing in English against the grain of a mythic Afrikaner past Coetzee blends allegory, realism and poststructural narrative techniques to produce powerful critiques of colonial and postcolonial domination. Coetzee can be said to have introduced poststructuralist themes like the linguistic constructedness of the subject and the aporiatic plot into South African letters. However, the novels also employ realistically grounded psychological descriptions to describe the fragmentation of liberal ambitions and ideals in the highly polarized social structure of South Africa. Coetzee's novels are investigations of the possibilities and difficulties of empathic and ethical communication between white selves alienated by their struggle to comprehend the brutality and oppression of various others and the others who are the subjects of such oppression. Thus, his novels increasingly come to represent a self centered on empathically-driven but realistically limited object relationships with these others. This self is not simply an apersonal, linguistically determined apparatus, but a flesh and blood protagonist in colonialism's and later apartheid's deadly games of exploitation. The dissertation argues that Coetzee's narrators avoid complicity with imperialist, colonialist and apartheid structures of power by moving beyond blindness to such structures and toward an ethically based object relationship with the other. The argument uses the self psychological theory of Heinz Kohut, particularly Kohut's theories on narcissism and empathy, to examine the ebb and flow of intersubjectivity in Coetzee's self/other relations. While the aim of Coetzee's narrators is nothing less than open relationship to the other, they find themselves often torn by their desire for this relationship and their imbrication in dysfunctional political structures which limit self development. Thus the dissertation argues that the system of self and those systems of ideological and political imbrication Coetzee presents are allegories about object relationship, and notes, in turn, how these allegories interact and play off each other. The ambiguities, absurdities and resistances that define the narrators in Coetzee's novels suggest a realistic appraisal of how politics limits self-actualization and ethical relationship.
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to J M Coetzee written by Andrew Van der Vlies and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
