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Alternative title:
Animal
Issue Details:
First known date:
2009...
no.
4
2009
of
Long Paddock
est. 2007
Long Paddock
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Supplementary material for Southerly 69 (1)
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Coetzee's Animal Afterlives,
single work
criticism
'At first glance, the movement being outlined - away from the theological notion of grace and towards the 'body with its pain' - would seem to imply a disbelief in the efficacy of the afterlife. But, as any reader of Coetzee's recent fiction would be able to tell you, nothing could be further from the truth. One cannot read the post-Disgrace novels without noticing how prominently the afterlife figures in them both as theme and narrative device. While it would be going too far to label him a theologian, I think it is not too much of an exaggeration to call the late Coetzee a 'theorist of the afterlife' (Diary of a Bad Year 125).
My aim in this paper is to flesh out Coetzee's theory of the afterlife in order to see how it conditions the sense of his post-South-African fiction. The strangely touching essay 'On the Afterlife' that brings the 'Strong Opinions' section of Diary of a Bad Year to an end is as a good a place as any to start this investigation.' -
The Death of the Author : So Much Mourning and Melancholia, So Much Horror,
single work
essay
Includes discussion of 'The Death of the Author' by Roland Barthes.
- Identity Threat (Or the Terror of Veganism), single work essay
- The Adventure Novel of Everyday Lifei"I wake to", single work poetry
- Variation On Rilke's Sonnet to Orpheus 2, 4i"Oh this is the beast that had no existence.", single work poetry
- La Mort d'un Lioni"Being an aged hunter thirsting after fresh air", John Kinsella (translator), single work poetry
- Vespiaryi"In this yellow room above the factory floor", single work poetry
- Navel, single work short story
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Jad El Hage, The Myrtle Tree,
single work
review
— Review of The Myrtle Tree 2007 single work novel ; -
Beauty's Clear, Round Eye,
single work
review
— Review of Ransom 2009 single work novel ;
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