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1 Coetzee and Translation Jan Wilm , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee 2023; (p. 425-434)
1 The J. M. Coetzee Archive and the Archive in J. M. Coetzee Jan Wilm , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Beyond the Ancient Quarrel : Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee 2018;
1 Ancient Quarrels, Modern Contexts : An Introduction Patrick Hayes , Jan Wilm , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Beyond the Ancient Quarrel : Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee 2018;
1 2 y separately published work icon Beyond the Ancient Quarrel : Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee Patrick Hayes (editor), Jan Wilm (editor), Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 15980159 2018 anthology criticism

'In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there has emerged a long tradition that has sought to value literature chiefly as a useful supplement to philosophical reasoning. The fiction of J.M. Coetzee makes a striking challenge to this tradition. While his writing has frequently engaged philosophical subjects in explicit ways, it has done so with an emphasis on the dissonance between literary expression and philosophical reasoning. And while Coetzee has often overtly engaged with academic literary theory, his fiction has done so in a way that has tended to disorient rather than affirm those same theories, wrong-footing the normal processes of literary interpretation. 

'This volume brings together philosophers and literary theorists to reflect upon the challenge Coetzee has made to their respective disciplines, and to the disciplinary distinctions at stake in the ancient quarrel. The essays use his fiction to explore questions about the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism; the relationship between literature, theology, and post-secularism; the particular ways in which literature engages reality; how literature interacts with the philosophies of language, action, subjectivity, and ethics; and the institutions that govern the distinctions between literature and philosophy. It will be of importance not only to readers of Coetzee, but to anyone interested in the ancient quarrel itself.'  (Publication summary)

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