The Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. By Stephen Mulhall
In 1997, Nobel Prize-winning novelist and critic J.M. Coetzee delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. Departing from the Lectures’ standard format of philosophical address, Coetzee instead read a work of fiction about an esteemed Australian novelist, Elizabeth Costello...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 222-225 |
| Review of: | The Wounded Animal (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009) (Carter, James)
The wounded animal (Princeton, N. J. [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, 2009) (Carter, James) |
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| Summary: | In 1997, Nobel Prize-winning novelist and critic J.M. Coetzee delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. Departing from the Lectures’ standard format of philosophical address, Coetzee instead read a work of fiction about an esteemed Australian novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture at a fictional college in the USA. Stephen Mulhall begins The Wounded Animal with the suggestion that Coetzee's Tanner Lectures—which were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals, and later as part of his 2003 novel, Elizabeth Costello—mark ‘a deliberate attempt’ to reopen the perennial ‘quarrel’ between philosophy and literature (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frr012 |