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J.M. Coetzee and the ethics of power [unsettling complicity, complacency, and confession

Brill Rodopi [2015]

The present study looks closely into the unsettling effects Coetzee's novels have on the reader and explores the interconnectedness between stylistic choices and moral insights. Its overall aim is to disclose the effectiveness of Coetzee's narrative strategies to prompt the reader to engage in self-questioning and radical revisions of personal and social moral assumptions

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Título:

J.M. Coetzee and the ethics of power [ Recurso electrónico] :] unsettling complicity, complacency, and confession / by Emanuela Tegla

Editorial:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]

Descripción física:

1 recurso electrónico

Mención de serie:

EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete

Cross/cultures ; 185

Contenido:

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. From Duty to Moral Choice: Waiting for the Barbarians -- Present-Tense Narration and the Ethics of Representation -- The Magistrate: The Journey from Duty to Moral Choice -- 2. Facile Goodness and Shame: Age of Iron -- Epistolarity: Death, History, and Writing -- Confession: Self-Doubt and Problematic Love -- Shame: Self-Reflexiveness, Social Questioning, and Moral Revelation -- Purgation: The Elusive Character of Redemption -- 3. Sloth and Moral Integrity: Life & Times Michael K -- Narrative Strategies and the Ethical Encounter -- History and Individual Trauma -- 4. Ideals, Sex, and Violence: Disgrace -- Historical Guilt, Humiliation, and Morality -- Self-Deception and Morality -- Conclusion -- The Moral Dimension of Resisting Narrative Closure -- Works Cited -- Index

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Forma de acceso: World Wide Web

ISBN:

900430844X

9789004308442

9004308431

9789004308435