Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Coetzee’s Intellectual Landscapes 1
5. Part I. Truth and Justification
6. 1: J. M. Coetzee on Truth, Skepticism, and Secular Confession in “The Age We Live In” 25
7. 2: Social Order and Transcendence: J. M. Coetzee’s Poetics of Play 45
8. 3: Autobiography and Romantic Irony: J. M. Coetzee and Roland Barthes 66
9. 4: The Semantics of Barbarism in J. M. Coetzee’s Novel Waiting for the Barbarians 87
10. 5: In the Heart of the Empire: Coetzee and America 109
11. Part II. Objectivity and Communication
12. 6: Faith, Irony, Salt, and Possible Impossibilities: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus in Conversation with Zbigniew Herbert’s “From Mythology” 133
13. 7: Coetzee’s Ethics of Language(s) 158
14. 8: Force Fields 172
15. 9: The Reading of Don Quixote: Literature’s Migration into a New World 189
16. 10: The Lives of Animals: From Rational Language to Speaking (of) Lions 211
17. Part III. Convergence of Interpretative Horizons and Moral Solidarity
18. 11: Coetzee as Academic Novelist 233
19. 12: Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the Kafka Lineage 254
20. 13: J. M. Coetzee’s South African Intellectual Landscapes 274
21. 14: Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello 294
22. 15: Cosmopolitanism, the Range of Sympathy, and Coetzee 311
23. Notes on the Contributors 333
24. Index 337