J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style by Jarad Zimbler (English) Paperback Boo

Description: J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style by Jarad Zimbler This book argues for the centrality of linguistic understanding in the study of literary works by exploring the subterranean operations of syntax, lexis, prosody and semantics in J. M. Coetzees early fiction. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description J. M. Coetzees early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzees engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzees first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzees writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzees indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzees own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a politics of style. In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzees oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood. Author Biography Jarad Zimbler is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published articles on book history, Pierre Bourdieu and postcolonial pedagogy, and is co-editor of Crafts of World Literature: Field, Material and Translation, a special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Table of Contents Introduction; 1. Neither progress, nor regress; 2. New dimensions; 3. Lyrical situation and rhythmic intensity; 4. Native traditions and strange practices; 5. From bare life to soul language; Conclusion. Review Zimbler has taken a relatively traditional genre - the single-author monograph aimed at specialists - and armed it with something invigorating: a desire, first, to foreground the compositional concerns of a writer whose critics dont always attend to his handling of form; and, second, to reach beyond Coetzee aficionados by demonstrating assiduous treatments of diction, pace, and timbre that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary writing. David James, Public Books (publicbooks.org) In this accessible, elegant study, Zimbler achieves his stated goal, to analyze and explain the aesthetic decisions that produced and gave meaning to [Coetzees] bare prose ... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. E. R. Baer, Choice This erudite, wide-ranging, intellectually ambitious work makes a significant contribution not only to Coetzee studies but also to postcolonialist studies and contemporary fiction studies more broadly ... The insistent but unforced attention to what Zimbler calls those subtle shifts in tense and tone, vocabulary and register in order to make visible a politics of style will inform other literary critics grappling with how not to reduce the aesthetic qualities that help constitute politically charged writings both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Chairs Report, 2016 University English Book Prize ... fascinating and innovative ... contribution to Coetzee scholarship and South African literary studies. Lucy Valerie Graham, The Cambridge Quarterly Zimblers monograph lends a new dimension to Coetzee studies and invites us to take his approach to others of Coetzees novels and to the study of other authors, and to incorporate relational analyses in narratological inquiries. This valuable contribution to Coetzee criticism thus holds interest also for scholars in postcolonial literatures and narrative theory. Alexandra Effe, English Studies "Zimbler has taken a relatively traditional genre - the single-author monograph aimed at specialists - and armed it with something invigorating: a desire, first, to foreground the compositional concerns of a writer whose critics dont always attend to his handling of form; and, second, to reach beyond Coetzee aficionados by demonstrating assiduous treatments of diction, pace, and timbre that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary writing." David James, Public Books (publicbooks.org) "In this accessible, elegant study, Zimbler achieves his stated goal, to analyze and explain the aesthetic decisions that produced and gave meaning to [Coetzees] bare prose ... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above." E. R. Baer, Choice "This erudite, wide-ranging, intellectually ambitious work makes a significant contribution not only to Coetzee studies but also to postcolonialist studies and contemporary fiction studies more broadly ... The insistent but unforced attention to what Zimbler calls those subtle shifts in tense and tone, vocabulary and register in order to make visible a politics of style will inform other literary critics grappling with how not to reduce the aesthetic qualities that help constitute politically charged writings both within and beyond postcolonial studies." Chairs Report, 2016 University English Book Prize ... fascinating and innovative ... contribution to Coetzee scholarship and South African literary studies. Lucy Valerie Graham, The Cambridge Quarterly Zimblers monograph lends a new dimension to Coetzee studies and invites us to take his approach to others of Coetzees novels and to the study of other authors, and to incorporate relational analyses in narratological inquiries. This valuable contribution to Coetzee criticism thus holds interest also for scholars in postcolonial literatures and narrative theory. Alexandra Effe, English Studies Prizes Winner of University English Book Prize 2016 Review Quote "In this accessible, elegant study, Zimbler achieves his stated goal, to analyze and explain the aesthetic decisions that produced and gave meaning to [Coetzees] bare prose ... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above." E. R. Baer, Choice Promotional "Headline" This is the first book-length study of the distinctive style of J. M. Coetzees early and middle fictions. Description for Bookstore This book argues for the centrality of linguistic understanding in the study of literary works by exploring the subterranean operations of syntax, lexis, prosody and semantics in J. M. Coetzees early fiction. Description for Library This book argues for the centrality of linguistic understanding in the study of literary works by exploring the subterranean operations of syntax, lexis, prosody and semantics in J. M. Coetzees early fiction. Details ISBN1107624592 Author Jarad Zimbler Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2016 ISBN-10 1107624592 ISBN-13 9781107624597 Format Paperback Pages 242 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Short Title J M COETZEE & THE POLITICS OF Language English Media Book Affiliation University of Birmingham Publication Date 2016-04-28 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2016-04-28 AU Release Date 2016-04-28 NZ Release Date 2016-04-28 Illustrations 2 Tables, unspecified We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97734309;

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