J.M. Coetzee: Ethics, Power, Identity, and Form 3700-KON151-AL
This course focuses on the life and works of the writer J.M. Coetzee and the ways in which his novels engage with political, ethical, aesthetic, philosophical and social concerns. Throughout the course students will read a number of fictional, semi/autobiographical and critical works of J.M. Coetzee – mostly in fragments, but full unabridged texts will be assigned for reading too – as well as scholarly works devoted to Coetzee’s works and themes discussed. Although retaining its focus on literary studies, the course seeks to operate in an interdisciplinary climate: the ideas explored in Coetzee’s works will be considered via the theoretical lens of philosophy, philosophical ethics and theology, as well as multiple strands of cultural criticism, e.g. postcolonialism, feminism, animal studies, ecocriticism, and disability studies. The course structure will be arranged around the issues discussed. Students will be expected to read assigned texts on the regular, class-to-class basis, engage actively in in-class discussions on the topics studied and complete two response papers. During the final meeting students will be expected to attend an interview based on the themes discussed throughout the semester to obtain their final mark. Attendance and in-class performance will also be part of the assessment.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Założenia (opisowo)
Efekty kształcenia
After taking this course the student will:
Knowledge
K_W03 know literary terminology
K_W07 Know how to interpret and analyse a literary text
K_W16 Understand the relationship between the analysed texts and their historical background
Skills
K_U02 Know how to analyse selected texts in keeping with given research methods
K_U04 Acquire research skills necessary to analyse a literary text and complete a research assignment.
K_U12 Improve their English skills
Social skills
K_K01 Understand the need to continue improving their skills after the course
K_K02 Understand the importance of teamwork
K_K03 Understand the dynamic of academic and cultural development and follow the emerging research methods
Kryteria oceniania
Assessment is based on attendance (up to two absences allowed; absences 3-4 must be certified and/or made up; absences 5 and over result in failure to pass the course), in-class performance, timely submission of writing assignments (two response papers, 800-1000 words in length each) final interview.
Literatura
Primary texts
Coetzee, J. M. Age of Iron. New York and London: Penguin Books, 1998.
Coetzee, J. M. Diary of a Bad Year. London: Vintage, 2008.
Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. London: Vintage Books, 2007.
Coetzee, J. M. Doubling the Point. Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge/Massachusetts and London: Harvard UP, 1992.
Coetzee, J. M. Dusklands. London: Vintage, 1982.
Coetzee, J. M. Elizabeth Costello. London: Vintage, 2003.
Coetzee, J.M. Scenes from Provincial Life. Random House UK, 2015.
Coetzee, J. M. Foe. London: Penguin Books, 1987.
Coetzee, J. M. In the Heart of the Country. London: Vintage, 2004.
Coetzee, J.M. Late Essays 2006-2017. London: Harvill Secker, 2017.
Coetzee, J. M. Life and Times of Michael K. London: Vintage, 2004.
Coetzee, J. M. Slow Man. London: Vintage, 2006.
Coetzee, J. M. The Childhood of Jesus. London, 2014.
Coetzee, J. M. The Master of Petersburg. London: Vintage, 2004.
Coetzee, J. M. The Schooldays of Jesus. S.l.: Harvill Secker, 2016.
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. London: Vintage, 2004.
Secondary texts
Agamben, Giorgio, and Daniel Heller-Roazen. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Attridge, Derek. J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Attwell, David. J.M. Coetzee, South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley/Los Angeles/Oxford: University of California Press, 1993.
Attwell, David. J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing Face to Face with Time. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2015.
Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Danta, Chris, Sue Kossew, and Julian Murphet (eds). Strong Opinions. London & New York: Continuum, 2011.
Derrida, Jacques, and Anne Dufourmantelle. Of Hospitality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Foucault, Michel, and Richard Howard. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Hall, Alice. Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Hayes, Patrick, and Jan Wilm. Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Kannemeyer, John, and Michiel Heyns. J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing. London: Scribe, 2013.
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Essential Kierkegaard, edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Leist, Anton, and Peter Singer. J.M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Mehigan, Tim. A Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee. Rochester and New York: Camden House, 2011.
Mitchell, David T. and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Mulhall, Stephen. Wounded Animal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Ohrem, Dominik, and Roman Bartosch. Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Quayson, Ato. Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Tegla, Emanuela. J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power. Unsettling Complicity, Complacency, and Confession. Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2015.
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