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Article: Reading in the in-between: pre-scripting the "postscript" to Elizabeth Costello.
- Article from:
- Journal of Literary Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Summary
By offering a close reading and analysis of "Postscript", the text that concludes Coetzee's collection of "lessons" in his 2003 book E/izabeth Costello, in conjunction with Hofmannsthal's 1902 "Chandos Letter" (including brief reference to the Nobel Address "He and His Man"), the essay demonstrates the implications of palimpsestuous reading. Informed by Gerard Genette's study of the palimpsest as a mode of literary presentation particularly suited to poststructuralist understandings of the disassociation between author and protagonist, the essay argues, furthermore, that palimpsestuous writing articulates the conjunctive double of language and fiction ...
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Article: Reviews:Elizabeth Costello: Ideas to sharpen your ...
The Scotsman;
September 6, 2003 ;
700+ words
...Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee, Secker & Warburg ... central fictional character, Elizabeth Costello, is also a writer, an Australian ... Plotless and characterless, Elizabeth Costello - highly readable and bracing ...
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