Beyond the ancient quarrel literature, philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee
In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there has emerged a lon...
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Oxford, New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there has emerged a long tradition that has sought to value literature chiefly as a useful supplement to philosophical reasoning. The fiction of J.M. Coetzee makes a striking challenge to this tradition. While his writing has frequently engaged philosophical subjects in explicit ways, it has done so with an emphasis on the dissonance between literary expression and philosophical reasoning. And while Coetzee has often overtly engaged with academic literary theory, his fiction has done so in a way that has tended to disorient rather than affirm those same theories, wrong-footing the normal processes of literary interpretation. |
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| Beschreibung: | "This books emerged from a symposium held at the Research Centre at St John's College, Oxford, in June 2015, where initial drafts of the various chapters were discussed in a small-group workshop format." - Acknowledgements, Seite v Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 233-245 This book emerged from a symposium held at the Research Centre at St John's College, Oxford, in June 2015 |
| Beschreibung: | x, 253 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780198805281 978-0-19-880528-1 |