Overview: Contributes to an ongoing debate in Coetzee criticism about ethics, politics, and form.Integrates the work of the leading critics in the field, such as Clarkson, Hayes, Attwell and Attridge.Combines tThis 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,
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