Michaël Marais
Biographic Data
| ID | 6597563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaël Marais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaël |
| FAMILY NAME | Marais |
| SIGNATURE | MARAIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From the Standpoint of Redemption: Aesthetic Autonomy and Social Engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Fiction of the Late Apartheid Period
From the Standpoint of Redemption:Aesthetic Autonomy and Social Engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Fiction of the Late Apartheid Period Michael Marais (bio) During the 1980s, a perennial criticism of Coetzee's fiction was that it did not engage with the depredations of apartheid. Thus, for instance, Michael Vaughan complained that this writing downplays "material factors of oppression and struggle in contemporary South Africa" (1982, 126), and Michael…
Accommodating the other: Derek attridge on literature, ethics, and the work of J M Coetzee
Derek Attridge. 2004. The Singularity of Literature. London and New York: Routledge. Derek Attridge. 2005. J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading. Chicago: University of Chicago Press / Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu‐Natal Press. This review essay outlines Derek Attridge's argument for a form of critical attention to the literary text's relationship to alterity. It then traces some of the ways in which Attridge sustains and exemplifies t…
Very morbid phenomena: “Liberal Funk”, the “Lucy-syndrome” and JM Coetzee's Disgrace
The deployment of metafiction in an aesthetic of engagement in J.M. Coetzee's Foe
In this article it is argued that, in Foe, Coetzee achieves a synthesis of overt metanovelistic practice with engagement ‐ two modes conventionally held to be antagonistic. By means of various metafictional devices, Coetzee establishes an equivalence between the relations of father/child, author/character, master/slave, reader/text and subject/object ‐thus presenting a critique which exposes the linguistic base of various forms of political domin…
The political potential of postmodernist narrative strategies ‐ the case of D.M. Thomas's Ararat
By means of a reading of D.M. Thomas's Ararat, this paper takes issue with the common assumption that postmodernist writing is divorced from social and political concerns. It is argued that the reflexive narrative strategies which characterize this text and form the basis of its introverted aspect, are not simply examples of formalist game‐playing but are actually deployed to engage with political history. The paper is divided into two parts, the…
Critical response
Fowles's Mantissa: Trying to escape the prison‐house of language
A tension between freedom and determinism prevails in Fowles's fiction and, in Mantissa, this tension exists on the level of language. It is argued here that the novel explores the extent to which language determines existence, and provides a model of language which posits the possibility of liberation from such determinism. Mantissa lends itself to such an exploration of language because it is a metanovel, that is, a self‐conscious language‐cons…
Very morbid phenomena: “Liberal Funk”, the “Lucy-syndrome” and JM Coetzee's Disgrace
From the Standpoint of Redemption: Aesthetic Autonomy and Social Engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Fiction of the Late Apartheid Period
From the Standpoint of Redemption:Aesthetic Autonomy and Social Engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Fiction of the Late Apartheid Period Michael Marais (bio) During the 1980s, a perennial criticism of Coetzee's fiction was that it did not engage with the depredations of apartheid. Thus, for instance, Michael Vaughan complained that this writing downplays "material factors of oppression and struggle in contemporary South Africa" (1982, 126), and Michael…
The political potential of postmodernist narrative strategies ‐ the case of D.M. Thomas's Ararat
By means of a reading of D.M. Thomas's Ararat, this paper takes issue with the common assumption that postmodernist writing is divorced from social and political concerns. It is argued that the reflexive narrative strategies which characterize this text and form the basis of its introverted aspect, are not simply examples of formalist game‐playing but are actually deployed to engage with political history. The paper is divided into two parts, the…
Critical response
Fowles's Mantissa: Trying to escape the prison‐house of language
A tension between freedom and determinism prevails in Fowles's fiction and, in Mantissa, this tension exists on the level of language. It is argued here that the novel explores the extent to which language determines existence, and provides a model of language which posits the possibility of liberation from such determinism. Mantissa lends itself to such an exploration of language because it is a metanovel, that is, a self‐conscious language‐cons…
The deployment of metafiction in an aesthetic of engagement in J.M. Coetzee's Foe
In this article it is argued that, in Foe, Coetzee achieves a synthesis of overt metanovelistic practice with engagement ‐ two modes conventionally held to be antagonistic. By means of various metafictional devices, Coetzee establishes an equivalence between the relations of father/child, author/character, master/slave, reader/text and subject/object ‐thus presenting a critique which exposes the linguistic base of various forms of political domin…
Very morbid phenomena: “Liberal Funk”, the “Lucy-syndrome” and JM Coetzee's Disgrace
Accommodating the other: Derek attridge on literature, ethics, and the work of J M Coetzee
Derek Attridge. 2004. The Singularity of Literature. London and New York: Routledge. Derek Attridge. 2005. J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading. Chicago: University of Chicago Press / Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu‐Natal Press. This review essay outlines Derek Attridge's argument for a form of critical attention to the literary text's relationship to alterity. It then traces some of the ways in which Attridge sustains and exemplifies t…
From the Standpoint of Redemption: Aesthetic Autonomy and Social Engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Fiction of the Late Apartheid Period
From the Standpoint of Redemption:Aesthetic Autonomy and Social Engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Fiction of the Late Apartheid Period Michael Marais (bio) During the 1980s, a perennial criticism of Coetzee's fiction was that it did not engage with the depredations of apartheid. Thus, for instance, Michael Vaughan complained that this writing downplays "material factors of oppression and struggle in contemporary South Africa" (1982, 126), and Michael…
Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works)