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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression : A Reconsideration of Metalepsis
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'This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers.

'This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of FoeSlow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of SummertimeDiary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.'  (Publication summary)

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    • Cham,
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      Switzerland,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Palgrave Macmillan ,
      2017 .
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      Extent: 172p.
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      • Published 13 September 2017
      ISBN: 9783319601007

Works about this Work

[Review] J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression : A Reconsideration of Metalepsis Melissa Schuh , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: English Studies , vol. 100 no. 3 2019; (p. 367-369)

'Alexandra Effe's J.M Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression: A Reconsideration of Metalepsis is a timely contribution to the fields of Coetzee studies, narratology, contemporary literature and literary theory. Effe refocuses Coetzee criticism – recently dominated by the availability of archival material at the Harry Ransom Centre which is discussed in studies, such as David Attwell's J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time (2015) – to consider his published texts as a site of dialogue. Her study unites ethical and narratological concepts to broaden a critical understanding of metalepsis – a rhetorical phenomenon of boundary transgression. Metalepsis is shown to generate tensions and uncertainties in Coetzee's works, thus exemplifying ethical impact as contingent on a dialogic process of communication between author and reader.'  (Introduction)

[Review] J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression : A Reconsideration of Metalepsis Melissa Schuh , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: English Studies , vol. 100 no. 3 2019; (p. 367-369)

'Alexandra Effe's J.M Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression: A Reconsideration of Metalepsis is a timely contribution to the fields of Coetzee studies, narratology, contemporary literature and literary theory. Effe refocuses Coetzee criticism – recently dominated by the availability of archival material at the Harry Ransom Centre which is discussed in studies, such as David Attwell's J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time (2015) – to consider his published texts as a site of dialogue. Her study unites ethical and narratological concepts to broaden a critical understanding of metalepsis – a rhetorical phenomenon of boundary transgression. Metalepsis is shown to generate tensions and uncertainties in Coetzee's works, thus exemplifying ethical impact as contingent on a dialogic process of communication between author and reader.'  (Introduction)

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