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Highlights
- Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority.
- About the Author: Arthur Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies, and the Centre for Medical Humanities, at Durham University, UK.
- 256 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature
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Book Synopsis
Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority.Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to 'late style', the works reflect their writers' abiding concern with particular conceptions of rhetoric and aesthetic form. Literary Cynics combines accounts of these 'late' works with classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee's Disgrace to Beckett's letters, as well as detailed analysis of cynicism, both ancient and modern, as a philosophical and political movement.
Review Quotes
Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee is a study that will serve scholars of any of these respective authors looking for a thematic connection across continents. More meaningfully, it is revelatory in its theoretical discussion of revolution at its thresholds.
A Contracorriente
Concentrated and cerebral, it is also deeply embroiled in a conversation with existing scholarship. It is without a doubt a vital addition to studies of Borges, Beckett and Coetzee, however; and of literary cynicism itself.
Times Literary Supplement
Rose writes in the same way he lectures, with great authority ... fluency, flair, and self-assurance.
Review 31
About the Author
Arthur Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies, and the Centre for Medical Humanities, at Durham University, UK.Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .54 Inches (D)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Comparative Literature
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Author: Arthur Rose
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2018
TCIN: 1005551771
UPC: 9781350090019
Item Number (DPCI): 247-39-3095
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.81 pounds
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