Jane Poyner, ed., J.M.Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
Some years ago I attended a conference at which the keynote address was given by J.M. Coetzee. His topic was “What is a Classic?” Like myself, not many of his listeners would have been expecting the writer to illustrate his argument primarily by reference to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | Some years ago I attended a conference at which the keynote address was given by J.M. Coetzee. His topic was “What is a Classic?” Like myself, not many of his listeners would have been expecting the writer to illustrate his argument primarily by reference to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The following day at a highly theoretical session devoted to Coetzee’s own work, a North American scholar was explicating the phallic symbolism he claimed to have detected in Foe, when a somewhat bemus... |
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