书目名称 | J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human | 副标题 | Posthumanism and Nar | 编辑 | Kai Wiegandt | 视频video | | 概述 | Demonstrates how Coetzee’s work is fundamentally concerned with questioning what constitutes the human.Reads Coetzee for the first time in relation to literary anthropology.Situates Coetzee’s oeuvre i | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .“Kai Wiegandt’s study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee’s revision of our core ideas of the human—not least the human sense of uniqueness that we have invested in our belief in reason and conviction of God-likeness. He persuasively analyses the careful ways through which Coetzee deploys narrative as a mode of thinking through such human and post-human questions, so developing a fresh and original approach Wiegandt calls ‘anthropological realism’. Drawing on thinkers from across the French, German and Anglophone traditions, Wiegandt has produced a fiercely insightful and committedly interdisciplinary study.”..— Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford.“J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human offers a bold and compelling argument that is sure to make a serious intervention in Coetzee criticism. Wiegandt introduces several new fields of enquiry in relation to Coetzee’s fiction; the discussions thus reframe well-worn debates in an innovative way, making for unexpected insights in seemingly familiar critical terrain. The book opens up a valuable and thought-provoking perspective on Coetzee’s work, an | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | South African literature; J; M; Coetzee; Human-animal studies; Posthumanism; Postcolonial theory; Duskland | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29306-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-29308-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-29306-2 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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