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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 413–429.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Frances L. Restuccia This essay responds to Giorgio Agamben’s call for a renewed interlacing of philosophy and poetry by illustrating how literature can enable philosophy to represent and enjoy its object as well as how philosophy can render literature more conscious of its object. J.M. Coetzee’s...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 426–443.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Benjamin Lewis Robinson Abstract J. M. Coetzee conceived of Life & Times of Michael K (1983) as an “interpretive translation” of Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (1808/10). Drawing on Coetzee’s notes and drafts, this essay explores his attempt to generate the literary and political...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Yi-Ping Ong Abstract How do we come to share an ethical outlook with others? Is it possible to teach ethics? What does it mean to live with others when we do not (always) inhabit the same world? J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello engages these profound ethical questions in its very form. Whereas...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 238–240.
Published: 01 June 2015
... for experiments in Coetzee, cattle for consumption in Ozeki, and clones in Ishiguro. The strength of the book lies in Palumbo-Liu’s intelligent philosophical and ethical discussions about respon- sibility and empathy. Through Coetzee’s novel, for example, he talks about the way animal husbandry has been...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
... secolo.” Cavaciocchi 357 – 74 . Print . Coetzee J.M. Elizabeth Costello . New York : Viking , 2003 . Print . Coleman William E. “The Knight's Tale.” Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales . Vol. 2 . Ed. Correale Robert M. Hamel Mary . Woodbridge...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... South African writings under Apartheid, the complete absence of Palestinians (as others, barbarians, nightmares) in the recently published Israeli dystopias, appears particularly disheartening. Two notable examples are Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee (1980) and July’s People by Nadine...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Coetzee ’s Diary of a Bad Year , Anya complains of the polemical tone that Señor C takes in his book of contemporary opinions. “There you go,” she says to him, “giving everything a political twist again . . . you turn it into a boxing match, your opinion versus my opinion. . . . As I told you, it soon...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 382–384.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... M. Coetzee’s Childhood of Jesus all share “a fixation on the problems of language that merges with a commitment to unconventional methods of ethical instruction and an enticement to the work of self-improvement” (11). Zumhagen-Yekplé braids together these three “commitments to difficulty...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in Business: Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa . Tafelberg: Cape Town, 1997 . Print. Attridge, Derek. “J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace: Introduction.” Interventions 4.3 ( 2002 ): 315 -20. Print. Attridge, Derek, and Rosemary Jolly, eds. Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands and Richard Flanigan's Wanting.” Ariel 44 . 4 ( 2013 ): 89 – 116 . Print . Estok Simon C . “The Ecophobia Hypothesis: Remembering the Feminist Body of Ecocriticism.” International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism . Ed. Estok Simon C. Gaard...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-winslet-film >. Caputo, John D., Mark Dooley, and Michael J. Scanlon, eds. Questioning God . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001 . Print. Coetzee, J.M. Foe . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987 . Print. Dean, Carolyn J. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the capacious vision of African literature that Jackson sketches in her study. But there is no doubt that Jackson’s canvas is broad and revelatory, avoiding the expected heavyweights (Achebe, Coetzee, Adichie) while still surveying a full century’s worth of literature and philosophy, stretching from Casely...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of Narrative.” Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa . Ed. Nuttall Sarah Coetzee Carli . Cape Town : Oxford UP , 1998 . 19 – 28 . Print . Black's Law Dictionary < http://thelawdictionary.org/remedial/ >. Richard Nelly . The Insubordination of Signs...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Transmission.” Style and Structure in Literature . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975 . 213 -57. Coetzee, J.M. Waiting for the Barbarians . New York: Penguin, 1982 . Cohn, Dorrit. “Narrated Monologue: Definition of a Fictional Style.” Comparative Literature 18 ( 1966 ): 97 -112...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 241–245.
Published: 01 September 2015
... plot, which it diminishes. Homecoming, Dimock observes, is reserved for cats —​nameless ones, at that —​and the main character, although not a Nobody, is also not much of a Somebody. His wandering is a dwindled version of the ancient quest. Linklater’s Boyhood, adapted from J.M. Coetzee’s...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2000
... was to be at the forefront of Africa’s version of the International Brigade” (127). Jameson is simply incorrect when he argues that 9 J.M. Coetzee is able to set his allegory of South Africa, Waiting for the Barbarians, in a Northern hemisphere location and in a time when electricity has not yet been discovered...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Investigations §§243–315 . 133 – 43 . Print . ———. The Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee & the Difficulty of Reality in Literature & Philosophy . Princeton and Oxford : Princeton UP , 2009 . Print . North Michael . “Translation, Mistranslation and the Tractatus.” Reading 1922: A Return...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and the trou- bling pieces of the narrative are set to rest. Brooks is nevertheless a dazzling reader of “the confession problem.” At one point he refers to Coetzee’s suggestion that the “ultimate motive” for confession may not be the truth but rather “the motive of unmasking itself” (p. 47). One...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and the trou- bling pieces of the narrative are set to rest. Brooks is nevertheless a dazzling reader of “the confession problem.” At one point he refers to Coetzee’s suggestion that the “ultimate motive” for confession may not be the truth but rather “the motive of unmasking itself” (p. 47). One...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and the trou- bling pieces of the narrative are set to rest. Brooks is nevertheless a dazzling reader of “the confession problem.” At one point he refers to Coetzee’s suggestion that the “ultimate motive” for confession may not be the truth but rather “the motive of unmasking itself” (p. 47). One...