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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103052| Title: | An island no man is : insularity without subjectivity in Coetzee’s Foe |
| Other Titles: | Insularity : representations and constructions of small worlds |
| Authors: | Corby, James |
| Keywords: | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe -- Criticism and interpretation Maxwell Coetzee, John, 1940- . Foe -- Criticism and interpretation Literature, Modern Individualism |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | Königshausen & Neumann |
| Citation: | Corby, J. (2016). An island no man is : insularity without subjectivity in Coetzee’s Foe. In K. Dautel & K. Schödel (Eds.), Insularity : representations and constructions of small worlds (pp. 211-222). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. |
| Abstract: | This paper considers the way Robinson Crusoe has been received as a novel about origins and how this is tied to particular literary, historical, economic and philosophical investments that posit a discrete, autonomous subject. It then looks at how Foe, Coetzee’s reworking of Robinson Crusoe, presents a deconstruction of that subjectivity, crafting, in doing so, a complementary literary form far removed from realism. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103052 |
| ISBN: | 9783826055393 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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