Strong Opinions : J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Ha...

Strong Opinions : J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Hardcover by Danta, Chris (EDT); Kossew, Sue (EDT); Murphet, Julian (EDT), ISBN 1441105301, ISBN-13 9781441105301, Like New Used, Free shipping in the USThe editors (associated with Monash U. and U. of New South Wales, Australia) propose that . Coetzee, perhaps more than any author, strove to write without literary authority or, in other words, sought to expose readers to the paradox of literary authority. This collection of ten papers explores the ways in which Coetzee's novels sought to unsettle literary authority through the performance of literature's construction of authority out of nothing. The papers are organized into sections that further focus on Coetzee's decision to immigrate to Australia and how it affected his fiction; the ways in which the deconstruction of authority takes place via the inter-subjective and the intertextual; and the use of the figure of the "chained prisoner" in rethinking such notions as history, humanity, and reality. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()