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Author:   Professor Anthony Uhlmann (Western Sydney University, Australia) ,  Professor Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781501344688

ISBN 10:   1501344684
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Section One: Philological and Philosophical Concerns 2. What Does J.M. Coetzee’s Novel, The Childhood of Jesus Have To Do with the Childhood of Jesus? Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA) 3. Pathos of the Future: Writing and Hospitality in Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Section Two: Socio-Political Concerns 4. Thinking Through Shit in The Childhood of Jesus Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) 5. Coetzee’s Republic: Plato, Borges, and Migrant Memory In The Childhood Of Jesus Lynda Ng (Sydney University, Australia) and Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia) Section Three: Intertextual Concerns 6. Creative Intuition: Coetzee, Plato, Bergson and Murnane Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 7. The Name of the Number: Transfinite Mathematics in The Childhood of Jesus Baylee Brits (University of New South Wales, Australia) Section Four: Ethical Concerns 8. J. M. Coetzee and the Parental Punctum Sue Kossew (Monash University, Australia) 9. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and the Moral Image of the World Tim Mehigan (University of Queensland, Australia) 10. Beyond the Literary Theme Park: J. M. Coetzee’s Late Style in The Childhood of Jesus Yoshiki Tajiri (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Index

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J.M. Coetzee's recent fictions are about what he calls `second-order' questions. Always the self-conscious craftsman, Coetzee made the great historical conflicts of our time his particular metier, from Dusklands (1974) to Disgrace (1999). Now the attention falls more squarely on writing itself: on fictional representation, and on the place of ideas and ethics in story-telling. To explore this terrain, Coetzee takes us back to the apocryphal gospels and the foundations of culture in Plato and Cervantes. This new writing by Coetzee is as quirky as it is erudite and it demands a special kind of reader. J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things assembles the best possible cast to illuminate one of Coetzee's most perplexing novels to date. * David Attwell, Professor of English, University of York, UK * This remarkable collection provides an indispensable guide to unravelling the literary, philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Coetzee's enigmatic novel. Together, the essays form a highly suggestive, discordant and overlapping exploration of some the key ideas in this allusive work. They set a benchmark for the critical work of interpretation yet to come. * Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia *

These essays, overlapping in their concerns, offer many useful entries into a puzzling fiction that Rutherford likens to a fairy tale, in that `it magnifies the darkness and complexity of being human.' * Comparative Literature Studies * J.M. Coetzee's recent fictions are about what he calls `second-order' questions. Always the self-conscious craftsman, Coetzee made the great historical conflicts of our time his particular metier, from Dusklands (1974) to Disgrace (1999). Now the attention falls more squarely on writing itself: on fictional representation, and on the place of ideas and ethics in story-telling. To explore this terrain, Coetzee takes us back to the apocryphal gospels and the foundations of culture in Plato and Cervantes. This new writing by Coetzee is as quirky as it is erudite and it demands a special kind of reader. J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things assembles the best possible cast to illuminate one of Coetzee's most perplexing novels to date. * David Attwell, Professor of English, University of York, UK * This remarkable collection provides an indispensable guide to unravelling the literary, philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Coetzee's enigmatic novel. Together, the essays form a highly suggestive, discordant and overlapping exploration of some the key ideas in this allusive work. They set a benchmark for the critical work of interpretation yet to come. * Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia *

Author Information

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image(2006), and Thinking in Literature (2011). From 2008-2013 he edited the Journal of Beckett Studies. Jennifer Rutherford is Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of two books, including Zombies (2013).

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