{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-j-m-coetzee-9781350152045","title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. M. Coetzee  novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003)  is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee\u003c\/i\u003e offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work.  The volume covers a wealth of topics, including:  The full span of Coetzee's work from his poetry to his essays and major fiction, including \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eJesus \u003c\/i\u003enovels Biographical details and archival approaches Coetzee's sources and influences, including engagements with Modernism, South African, Australian, Russian and Latin American literatures Interdisciplinary perspectives, including on visual cultures, music, philosophy, computational systems and translation.  \u003ci\u003e The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee\u003c\/i\u003e provides indispensa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers an extraordinary and exciting array of information, ideas, insights, as well as  assessments and unexpected contexts, about Coetzee’s life and works. Its comprehensiveness is  really quite remarkable. The perceptive, thoughtful essays quickly challenged me into thinking afresh  and anew—I found myself immediately propelled back to Coetzee’s books on my shelves and starting to reread them. Every admirer of Coetzee will want to have this book by their side. * Robert J.C. Young, Professor of English, New York University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eLike many innovative writers, J. M. Coetzee has always been wary of what he once called the critic’s ‘games handbook.’ Thankfully, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee\u003c\/i\u003e heeds this caution. Assembling an impressive array of established and emergent critics, this welcome, even game-changing collection opens Coetzee’s astonishing oeuvre for a new generation of readers in myriad productive ways * Peter D. McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Life, Institutions, Reception\u003c\/b\u003e  1. On the idea of a handbook to the works of J. M. Coetzee: ‘Preposterous [?]’   Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham 2. Life \u0026amp; times of J. M. Coetzee   Jane Poyner 3. Autobiographies\/autrebiographies\/biographies   Alexandra Effe 4. J. M. Coetzee and his publishers   Andrea Thorpe  \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Early Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e  5. Coetzee’s poetry   Jarad Zimbler 6. \u003ci\u003eDusklands\u003c\/i\u003e   Rita Barnard 7. \u003ci\u003eIn the Heart of the Country \u003c\/i\u003e  Ian Glenn 8. \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e   Jennifer Wenzel 9. \u003ci\u003eLife \u0026amp; Times of Michael K \u003c\/i\u003e  Eckard Smuts  \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Late- and post-apartheid Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e  10. \u003ci\u003eFoe\u003c\/i\u003e   Patrick Flanery 11. \u003ci\u003eAge of Iron\u003c\/i\u003e   Katherine Hallemeier 12. \u003ci\u003eThe Master of Petersburg\u003c\/i\u003e   Derek Attridge 13. \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e   Chris Holmes 14. J. M. Coetzee’s apartheid-era criticism   Xiaoran Hu  \u003cb\u003ePart Four: Late-style Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e  15. The Costello project   Andrew van der Vlies 16. Diary of a Bad Year   Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice 17. The Jesus novels   Timothy Bewes 18. Later criticism and correspondence   Nick Mulgrew  \u003cb\u003ePart Five: Style, Form, Ideas\u003c\/b\u003e  19. Coetzee’s style   Carrol Clarkson 20. Coetzee, religion and philosophy   Alice Brittan 21. Coetzee, gender and sexuality   Laura Wright 22. Coetzee and the nonhuman   Daniel Williams 23. Coetzee, computers and binary thinking   Rebecca Roach 24. Coetzee’s humour   Huw Marsh 25. Education and the novels of J. M. Coetzee   Aparna Mishra Tarc  \u003cb\u003ePart Six: Contexts, Intertexts, Influence\u003c\/b\u003e  26. Coetzee and the history of the novel   Andrew Dean 27. Coetzee’s South Africans   Jan Steyn 28. Coetzee’s modernists   Paul Sheehan 29. Coetzee’s Mitteleuropa and Austro-Hungary   Russell Samolsky 30. Coetzee, Israel, Palestine   Louise Bethlehem, Dalia Abu-Sbitan and Shir Dannon 31. Coetzee’s Russians   Jeanne-Marie Jackson 32. Coetzee’s Latin America   Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra 33. Coetzee’s Australians   Michelle Cahill  \u003cb\u003ePart Seven: Intermediation, adaptation, translation\u003c\/b\u003e  34. Coetzee and photography   Hermann Wittenberg 35. Coetzee and the visual arts   Sean O’Toole 36. J. M. Coetzee and the work of music   Graham K. Riach 37. Adapting Coetzee for the stage and screen   Ed Charlton 38. Coetzee and translation   Jan Wilm  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084830699863,"sku":"9781350152045","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350152045.jpg?v=1762207295","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-j-m-coetzee-9781350152045","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}