Browsing Research Outputs (Afrikaans and Theory of Literature) by Subject "JM Coetzee"

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Elizabeth Costello as a Socratic figure

Northover, Richard Alan (Institute for the Study of English in Africa Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, 2012-05)

J.M. Coetzee’s use of the persona, Elizabeth Costello, in several short pieces as well as in The Lives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man has had a mixed reaction amongst reviewers and critics, and Costello herself, ...
Human identity and animal ethics in J.M. Coetzee’s The lives of animals

Northover, Richard Alan (Routledge, 2009-12-16)

The article aims to position JM Coetzee’s The lives of animals within the animal rights debate and assess both his use of and his failure to use key philosophical texts in the animal rights movement. This task is complicated ...
Schopenhauer and secular salvation in the work of J.M. Coetzee

Northover, Richard Alan (Institute for the Study of English in Africa Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, 2014-05)

Considering how fruitfully Schopenhauer’s philosophy promises to provide a unified interpretation of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and The Lives of Animals, the critical neglect of this philosopher seems surprising. Schopenhauer ...

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