Foes: Plato, Derrida, And Coetzee: Rereading J.M. Coetzee's Foe. Foes: Plato, Derrida, And Coetzee: Rereading J.M. Coetzee's Foe.

Foes: Plato, Derrida, And Coetzee: Rereading J.M. Coetzee's Foe‪.‬

Journal of Literary Studies 2008, Dec, 24, 4

Journal of Literary Studies
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Summary The novels of J.M. Coetzee both invite and reward multiple readings, and Foe (1986) remains one of Coetzee's most deliberately innovative and literary of novels. In a prescient act, a conference on Foe was hosted by the Theory of Literature Department at Unisa as early as 1988, only some two years after its publication, which resulted in the perspicacious and incisive scrutiny of this aesthetically strategic work. More recently, Attridge (2005) has revisited his 1992 examination of Foe, and argued that the novel is both a plea for canonical status and an attempt to widen the canon. Following Attridge's (2005) insightful essay, this article also returns to Foe, and appropriates Grabe's (1989:

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2008
1 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
34
Pages
PUBLISHER
Literator Society of South Africa
SIZE
213.9
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