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The wounded animal :

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The wounded animal :

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J. M. Coetzee and the difficulty of reality in literature and philosophy /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Mulhall

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x, 259 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-255) and index

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Ch. 1. Introduction: The ancient quarrel -- Part One: The lives of animals -- Ch. 2. Elizabeth Costello's lecture: stories, thought-experiments, and literal mindedness -- Ch. 3. Elizabeth Costello's lecture: Three philosophers and a number of apes -- Ch. 4. Food for thought: Two symposia -- Ch. 5. Food for thought: A third symposium -- Ch. 6. Food for thought: An invited guest? -- Ch. 7. Elizabeth Costello's seminar: Two poets and a novelist -- Ch. 8. Elizabeth Costello's seminar: Primatology and animal training, philosophy and literary theory -- Part Two: Elizabeth Costello -- Ch. 9. Realism, modernism, and the novel -- Ch. 10. Costello's realist modernism, and Coetzee's -- Ch. 11. The body in Africa -- Ch. 12. Evil as obscenity -- Ch. 13. Two embodiments of the Katkaesque -- Ch. 14. Conclusion: Three postscripts

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Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality. Stephen Mulhall examines Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello', which deals with the moral status of animals

Coetzee, J. M.,1940-Criticism and interpretation

Coetzee, J. M.,1940-Philosophy

Animals (Philosophy)

Literature-- Philosophy

Philosophy in literature

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Mulhall, Stephen,1962-

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20101029034235.0

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