Search Results for J. M. Coetzee

...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...

...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...

.... 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...

...). Works Cited Arendt Hannah . The Life of the Mind . New York : Harvest , 1978 . Coetzee J. M. Diary of a Bad Year . New York : Vintage , 2007 . Deleuze Gilles , and Guattari Félix . Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature , translated by Polan Dana . Minneapolis...

... 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 Gordimer (1981...

... 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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... is alternately celebrated for its capacities to accommodate worldly pluralism and lamented as a symptom of global homogenization. Rebecca Walkowitz’s influential Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature examines how English-language writers, including those such as J. M. Coetzee...

...-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...