“King of the Amphibians”: Elizabeth Costello and Coetzee’s Metamorphoric Fictions

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This article analyses the multi-generic and protean formal properties of Elizabeth Costello (2003) in order to illustrate how Coetzee’s experiments with literary form constitute a distinctive intervention in contemporary political, philosophical and aesthetic debates.

 

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Hierdie artikel analiseer die multigeneriese en proteaanse eienskappe van Elizabeth Costello (2003) om te illustreer hoe Coetzee se proefnemings met letterkundige vorm neerkom op ’n ingryping in hedendaagse politiese, filosofiese en estetiese debatte.

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Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University

Michael Valdez Moses is Associate Professor of English at Duke University and co-editor of the journal, Modernist Cultures. He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (Oxford University Press, 1995), and the co-editor of Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 (Duke University Press, 2007), to which he contributed an essay, “Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origin of Modernist Aesthetics”.

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2009-12-01

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Moses, Michael Valdez. 2009. “‘King of the Amphibians’: Elizabeth Costello and Coetzee’s Metamorphoric Fictions”. Journal of Literary Studies 25 (4):25-38. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/12461.

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Vol. 25 No. 4 (2009): J.M. Coetzee and His Doubles

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