Patrick Hayes Patrick Hayes i(A104355 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 ;
Gender: Male
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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)

1 Coetzee and Close Reading Patrick Hayes , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works 2014; (p. 187-194)
1 Cultural Criticism in the Australian Fiction Patrick Hayes , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: J. M. Coetzee and the Novel : Writing and Politics after Beckett 2010; (p. 223-259)
'This concluding chapter considers Coetzee's Australian fiction in relation to a longstanding tradition of cultural criticism directed at the moral and political condition of modernity. It has recently been argued that this tradition, for all its many differences of emphasis, has as its shared characteristic the deployment of a ‘cultural principle’ that displaces politics and itself lays claim to the role of social authority: this chapter sets Coetzee in the context of the most important new thinking about the tradition of cultural criticism, making special reference to the recent debate between Stefan Collini and Francis Mulhern. It shows that Coetzee sustainedly tries to refuse the moral and political simplifications that at times have characterized this tradition—allusion is made in particular to the work of Benda, Arnold, Nietzsche, and T. S. Eliot—and that his fiction opens up a line of cultural criticism that more subtly navigates the complex terrain of political modernity.' Source: Patrick Hayes.
1 1 y separately published work icon J. M. Coetzee and the Novel : Writing and Politics after Beckett Patrick Hayes , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 Z1855208 2010 single work criticism 'This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Becket - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics.' Source: Libraries Australia.
1 Untitled Patrick Hayes , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , November vol. 41 no. 2 2005; (p. 240-242)

— Review of J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading : Literature in the Event Derek Attridge , 2004 multi chapter work criticism
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