The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J. M. Coetzee's works, practices, horizons and relations.

Jarad Zimbler (Edited by)

9781108466738, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2020

332 pages
22.7 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works. All of Coetzee's published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed at length, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Confronting Coetzee's works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee's undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power and intensity.

Introduction Jarad Zimbler
Part I. Forms: 1. Composition and craft: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell
2. Scenes and settings: Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man Meg Samuelson
3. Stories and narration: In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus Jarad Zimbler
4. Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus David James
5. Genres: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime Derek Attridge
Part II. Relations: 6. Translations Jan Steyn
7. Collaboration and correspondence Rachel Bower
8. Criticism and scholarship Sue Kossew
9. Influence and intertextuality Patrick Hayes
10. Worlds, world-making, and Southern horizons Ben Etherington
Part III. Mediations: 11. Other arts and adaptations Michelle Kelly
12. Philosophies Anthony Uhlmann
13. Lives and archives Andrew Dean
14. Publics and personas Andrew van der Vlies
Further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary companions, book reviews & guides [DSRC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: general [DSB]