The Music of Voice examines the influence of music on twentieth-century literary theory and fiction. Bringing contemporary novels into dialogue with Said's notion of counterpoint, Bakhtin’s metaphorical polyphony, and other critical theories, this dissertation reevaluates author…
Though a growing body of scholarship situates contemporary literary authorship within a romantic tradition of writers attempting to distance themselves from the market function of their texts, focusing on postcolonial writers shows that anxiety about commercialization is not the…
Postcolonial gothic fiction arises in response to certain social, historical, or political conditions. Postcolonial fiction adapts a British narrative form that is highly attuned to the distinction and collapse between home and not home and the familiar and the foreign. The appe…
In 2003, the South African writer J.M. Coetzee was awarded the Novel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrup…
In 2003, South African writer J.M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being ""a scrupulo…
Fictions of (in)betweenness
by Egerer, Claudia, Göteborgs universitet
fromGothenburg studies in English