Research Catalog

Title

The slow philosophy of J.M. Coetzee / Jan Wilm.

Author

Wilm, Jan.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

x, 251 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In this book, the author analyzes Coetzee's singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read Coetzee's works slowly. The effected "slow reading" is developed from within Coetzee's oeuvre into a method specifically geared to analyzing Coetzee's works. In the course of this analysis, it is shown that his texts productively decelerate the reading process only to dynamize the reader's reflection in a way that may be termed philosophical.--

Subject

• Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Criticism and interpretation
• Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
• Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Language > Style
• Criticism
• Philosophie
• Reader response
• Literarischer Stil

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Very much the tortoise: slowness and J.M. Coetzee -- 2. A slow method for a slow man: reading Coetzee, slowly -- 3. A goblin: why?: Coetzee's questions -- 4. What matters is that the contest is staged: Coetzee's slowing syntax -- 5. Meerlust: Coetzee and literalness -- 6. We make a leap: Coetzee's gaps -- 7. The legacy of Socrates: dialogue in and with Coetzee -- 8. Dark and unending: Coetzee's open-ended endings -- 9. An empty cube: Coetzee's irreal worlds.

Call Number

JFE 16-9784

ISBN

• 1474256457
• 9781474256452

OCLC

930829896

Author

Wilm, Jan.

Title

The slow philosophy of J.M. Coetzee / Jan Wilm.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9784