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- Title
'ATTACHMENT WITH DETACHMENT': A POST-SECULAR READING OF JM COETZEE'S RECENT FICTION.
- Authors
DIMITRIU, ILEANA ŞORA
- Abstract
This article takes issue with postmodern allegorical quests as theorized by, for example, Schiralli (1999), Caputo (1997) and Petrolle (2008). While alert to the deconstructive project, these critics wish to reconstruct (as opposed to deconstruct) the value of truth claims in the midst of ontological doubts. The aim is to rehabilitate truth/value claims, while utilising postmodernist deconstruction serving a reconstructive, even spiritual purpose. I shall illustrate this dynamic based on JM Coetzee's most recent fiction.
- Subjects
CHILDHOOD of Jesus, The (Book : Coetzee); COETZEE, J. M., 1940-; POSTMODERNISM (Literature); POSTSECULARISM in literature; ATTACHMENT behavior; DECEPTION; DECONSTRUCTION
- Publication
BAS - British & American Studies, 2015, Vol 21, p133
- ISSN
1224-3086
- Publication type
Literary Criticism