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... the Eurocentric canon for a global age while enacting the death of the romance of the novel. The essay has three parts: the first examines V. S. Naipaul's vexed identification with and shadowing of Joseph Conrad; the second discusses J. M. Coetzee's deconstructive interpretation of the national and cultural...

...Andrew van der Vlies Andrew van der Vlies teaches in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. He is author of South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read All Over (2007) and J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace”: A Reader’s Guide (2010); editor of a forthcoming...

... closely to works by Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. She notes that Gordimer looked to nineteenth- century Russian writers for models of literature’s role in contested political milieus but also engaged with other Eastern European writers and socialist...

... closely to works by Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. She notes that Gordimer looked to nineteenth- century Russian writers for models of literature’s role in contested political milieus but also engaged with other Eastern European writers and socialist...

... by Popescu — the emergence of postcommunist disorder as a potent metaphor for ideological confusion and social change in the “new” South Africa. Popescu also attends closely to works by Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. She notes...

... for ideological confusion and social change in the “new” South Africa. Popescu also attends closely to works by Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. She notes that Gordimer looked to nineteenth- century Russian writers for models of literature’s...

.... Naipaul and of Daniel Defoe and J. M. Coetzee. Although these pairings have often been considered as separate cases, Mukher- jee valuably juxtaposes them to foreground their differing relations to influence and to the form of the novel itself. Conrad becomes for Naipaul a model to be actively...

... Press . Coetzee J. M. 1973 . “ Samuel Beckett’s ‘Lessness’: An Exercise in Decomposition .” Computers and the Humanities 7 , no. 4 : 195 – 98 . Coetzee J. M. 2010 . “ On the Moral Brink .” New York Review of Books , October 28 . www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/10/28/moral...

... such contentions. It does so from the ground up, that is, by taking on the “phonocentrism” of this allegedly “subversive” rewriting. Unlike Rhys, J. M. Coetzee, and Julian Barnes—of whose reluctance to embark on idealistic “social formalism” Rosen approves—Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin ( Lavinia ), Christa Wolf...

... and cultural theory and whose engagement with it is clear from evidence outside their novels. Instances include Kristeva, who Attridge Review 117 took on Lacan in theoretical argument and in fiction; J. M. Coetzee, whose nonfictional writing betrays a deep...

... and cultural theory and whose engagement with it is clear from evidence outside their novels. Instances include Kristeva, who Attridge Review 117 took on Lacan in theoretical argument and in fiction; J. M. Coetzee, whose nonfictional writing betrays a deep...

... and cultural theory and whose engagement with it is clear from evidence outside their novels. Instances include Kristeva, who Attridge Review 117 took on Lacan in theoretical argument and in fiction; J. M. Coetzee, whose nonfictional writing betrays a deep...

... and cultural theory and whose engagement with it is clear from evidence outside their novels. Instances include Kristeva, who Attridge Review 117 took on Lacan in theoretical argument and in fiction; J. M. Coetzee, whose nonfictional writing betrays a deep...

... Are Dead , his absurdist version of Hamlet ; in 1969 Aimé Césaire published Une tempête , his postcolonial version of The Tempest ; and in 1971 Edward Bond published Lear , his controversial take on King Lear . 2 A generation later J. M. Coetzee published Foe (1986), a rewrite of Robinson Crusoe...

... on Nobel laureates. In recent years I have supervised MA or PhD dissertations on Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Beck- ett, Toni Morrison, and J. M. Coetzee, and publishers are keen to issue revised ver- sions of these dissertations. 10  Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator,” trans. Harry Zohn...

... Márquez, J. M. Coetzee, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison; writers such as Mahfouz, Abdul Rahman Munif, Ghassan Kanafani, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, and others who have produced classics of anticolonial or postcolonial realism have not been entirely ignored, but they have rarely been...

...” poet.40 His criticism, he admits late in his life, was “implicitly defending the sort of poetry that I and my friends wrote.”41 A “Roman Englishman,” as  J. M. Coetzee calls him, Eliot for three decades tried to turn Western culture back to its Roman-­Christian roots, but this concern...

... 275 duced literary genealogies still regnant in our classrooms: Morrison’s debt to William Faulkner, Rushdie’s to James Joyce, J. M. Coetzee’s to Franz Kafka. Meanwhile, the new modernist studies, beginning in the late s, instituted a broadening of its database to truly global...

... for global circu- lation rethink models of literary and political grouping.21 We might think here of the generic and graphic hybridity of J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Summertime (2009) as well as of the reflection on copying and counting in novels such as Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Pot...

... form began to dominate, resulting in publications over the next thirty years from award-winning luminaries like Gabriel García Márquez, J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles Johnson, Michael Cunningham, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Carey, Daniel Kehlmann, Olga...