Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee

CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. Patrick W Hayes is a marine environmental historian, having completed his doctorate at Trinity College, Dublin

• Introduction: Coetzee's Intellectual Landscapes - Tim Mehigan and Christian MoserJ. M. Coetzee on Truth, Skepticism, and Secular Confession in "The Age We Live In" - Tim MehiganSocial Order and Transcendence: J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of Play - Christian MoserAutobiography and Romantic Irony: J. M. Coetzee and Roland Barthes - Patrick HayesThe Semantics of Barbarism in J. M. Coetzee's Novel Waiting for the Barbarians - Markus WinklerIn the Heart of the Empire: Coetzee and America - Martin WoessnerFaith, Irony, Salt and Possible Impossibilities: J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus in Conversation with Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology" - Maria BoletsiCoetzee's Ethics of Language(s) - Robert StockhammerForce Fields - Carrol ClarksonThe Reading of Don Quixote: Literature's Migration into a New World - Alexander HonoldThe Lives of Animals: From Rational Language to Speaking (of) Lions - Elisa AaltolaCoetzee as Academic Novelist - Simon DuringCharacter and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the Kafka Lineage - Derek AttrigeJ. M. Coetzee's South African Intellectual Landscapes - David AttwellPhilosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello - Robert B. PippinCosmpolitanism, the Range of Sympathy, and Coetzee - Anton LeistIndex

Gathers together some of the world's leading Coetzee scholars and philosophers in an attempt to explore not just the influence but the mechanics of the influence that Coetzee's reading has had on his work...This is a collection that those who are interested in the work of Coetzee should read. The essays are excellent [and] ultimately remind the reader that the key to unfolding the difficult, elliptical, bewildering moments of Coetzee's fiction might lie in the conversations that it holds with the works of others.