[Research] Generally Disgrace
Browsing around in the library this evening, I came across The Cambridge Introduction to J.M. Coetzee. Along with a bunch of other interesting information (the book claims to cover Coetzee’s life, works, […]
Browsing around in the library this evening, I came across The Cambridge Introduction to J.M. Coetzee. Along with a bunch of other interesting information (the book claims to cover Coetzee’s life, works, […]
Katherine Hallemeier’s book J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism has a chapter discussing Disgrace and the way that shame factors into the novel, the characters, the community within the novel, and […]
David’s life is driven by rituals from the very first sentence of the book, but his mind is also driven by the need to grasp onto the tradition he’s created […]
It definitely seems that Coetzee could be suggesting that rituals rooted in tradition are antiquated methods for coping with the problems the new South Africa is facing through David’s struggle […]
I agree that rituals and traditions are a central theme in this novel. I would like to add on to this theme and argue that David’s use of connecting rituals […]
Rape as Debt: The Incineration of Romanticism in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Jeffrey Cass http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.ithaca.edu:2048/journals/cea_critic/v075/75.1.cass.html This article connects the rape scene of Lucy with the Romantic ideals of David. […]
I agree that this type of narration, fee indirect discourse, complicates the connection that the reader has to David. We are able to see into the mind of David, which […]
I agree that the free, indirect discourse manipulates the reader into understanding Lurie’s thought process. The narrator narrows the definition of rape, since David’s initiation of intercourse is “not quite […]
I agree with you that what he does is, without a doubt, rape, but I think that there is more to it than that. I think that there is a […]
As I read Lurie’s character, I find myself entirely perplexed. Do I sympathize with him because he believes that his actions are justified? Or am I horrified that in claiming […]