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Title

Encountering Disgrace : reading and teaching Coetzee's novel / edited by Bill McDonald.

Publication

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.

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Additional Authors

McDonald, William E., 1940-

Description

viii, 363 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Race in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Ethics in literature
• Self-knowledge in literature
• Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Study and teaching
• Animals in literature
• South Africa > In literature
• Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Disgrace
• Rape in literature
• Fathers and daughters in literature

Note

• Essays developed over three years studying the novel Disgrace, with ideas from students on a half dozen campuses, especially the University of Redland's Johnston Center students participating in the fall 2006 "Coetzee" seminar, who influenced interpretations in at least five of the essays included.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Bill McDonald -- "We are not asked to condemn": sympathy, subjectivity, and the narration of Disgrace / Michael G. McDunnah -- Beyond sympathy: a Bakhtinian reading of Disgrace / James Boobar -- "Is it too late to educate the eye?": David Lurie, Richard of St. Victor, and "vision as eros" in Disgrace / Bill McDonald -- Disgrace and the neighbor: an interchange with Bill McDonald / Kenneth Reinhard -- To live as dogs or pigs live under us: accepting what's on offer in Disgrace / Pat Harrigan -- Tenuous arrangements: the ethics of rape in Disgrace / Kim Middleton and Julie Townsend -- Dis(g)race, or white man writing / Sandra D. Shattuck -- Clerk in a post-religious age: reading Lurie's remnant romantic temperament in Disgrace / Gary Hawkins -- Saying it right in Disgrace: David Lurie, Faust, and the romantic conception of language / Patricia Casey Sutcliffe -- The dispossession of David Lurie / Kevin O'Neill -- Community reading: teaching Disgrace in an alternative college classroom / Matthew Gray -- Out of the father's house into a community of readers / Kathy Ogren -- Sympathy for the devil: on the perversity of teaching Disgrace / Daniel Kiefer -- Teaching Disgrace in the large lecture classroom / Nancy Best -- Discussing Disgrace in a critical theory class / Bradley Butterfield -- Disgrace in the classroom: a tale of two teaching strategies / Raymond Obstfeld -- The bodies of others: a meditation on the environs of reading J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Caryl Phillip's The Nature of blood / Jane Creighton -- Disgrace as a teacher / Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann.

Call Number

Sc E 10-600

ISBN

• 9781571134035 (hc : alk. paper)
• 1571134034

LCCN

2008048737

OCLC

259254679

Title

Encountering Disgrace : reading and teaching Coetzee's novel / edited by Bill McDonald.

Imprint

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.

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Added Author

McDonald, William E., 1940-

Research Call Number

Sc E 10-600