Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the result of an immersion in the work of J.M. Coetzee. I have taken various of Coetzee’s novels, namely Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man, and constructed readings of these novels from the inside out. The overarching concern of the dissertation is the notion of subjectivity and Coetzee’s methods of representing subjectivity. It is my contestation that the experience of authentic subjective awareness arises from the process of reading itself. It is not a state of being that is described by the text, but rather a layered constellation of substitutive exchanges that emerges from the process of textual relation. The notion of embeddedness serves as a description of the way in which the text materializes this experience of subjectivity. The structure of exploration in each chapter has taken as its paradigm a conceptual concern arising from the text itself. In the first chapter (Elizabeth Costello) the concern is with structure itself. The character of Elizabeth struggles against the limitation inherent in the process of representation; this struggle is read as an indication of authentic subjective experience in the face of reduction to a system of codes. The second chapter (Disgrace) attempts to formulate the dynamic of subjective awareness in romantic terms. I construct a reading of Lurie’s predicament in terms that arise from his conceptual environment, in order to indicate the primacy of textual materiality as the locus of subjective awareness. The notion of the classic informs the third chapter (The Master of Petersburg). I use an essay by Coetzee to delineate a conception of the classic, which is then applied as a theoretical framework for an exploration of Dostoevsky’s pursuit of his stepson. The fourth and last chapter (Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man) focuses on Coetzee’s use of the body as a figure for embedded subjectivity. It emerges that the body as a trope of embeddedness forms an important aspect of Coetzee’s work throughout his career. As such it is a very suitable figure for describing the dynamics of embeddedness as a mode of representation that aligns itself with the textual materiality of subjective being. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis het ontstaan as die gevolg van ‘n noukeurige ondersoek na die werk van J.M. Coetzee. Ek het myself laat begelei deur die inhoud van verskeie van Coetzee se boeke, naamlik Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K en Slow Man, om intensiewe lesings van hierdie boeke te konstrueer. Die oorkoepelende bemoeienis van die verhandeling is die konsep van subjektiwiteit en Coetzee se metodes van subjektiewe voorstelling. Ek beweer dat die ervaring van outentieke subjektiewe gewaarwording gesetel is in die leesproses. Dit is nie ‘n toestand van wese wat deur die teks beskryf word nie, maar eerder ‘n verweefde raamwerk van substituwe wisseling wat kom uit die proses van tekstuele relasie. Die konsep van inlywing (“embeddedness”) dien as 'n beskrywing van die manier waarop die teks hierdie ervaring van subjektiwiteit konkretiseer. Die struktuur van ondersoek in elke hoofstuk neem as paradigma 'n konsepsuele vraagstuk wat reeds gesetel is in die teks. In die eerste hoofstuk (Elizabeth Costello) is die bemoeienis met struktuur as sodanig. Elizabeth se karakter stry teen die inperking wat noodwending saamgaan met die proses van voorstelling; hierdie stryd word gelees as 'n aanduiding van outentieke subjektiewe ervaring teenoor die druk van vermindering tot 'n stel kodes. Die tweede hoofstuk (Disgrace) poog om die dinamiek van subjektiewe bewustheid te formuleer in terme wat afkomstig is van die romantiek. Ek konstrueer 'n lees van Lurie se toestand in terme wat kom van sy konsepsuele omgewing, om sodoende die voorrang van tekstuele materialiteit as die lokus van outentieke subjektiwiteit aan te dui. Die konsep van die klassieke belig die derde hoofstuk (The Master of Petersburg). Ek gebruik 'n essay van Coetzee om 'n begrip van die klassieke te formuleer, wat dan toegepas word as 'n teoretiese raamwerk waarbinne Dostoevsky se soeke na sy stiefseun ondersoek word. Die vierde en laaste hoofstuk (Foe, Life & Times of Michael K en Slow Man) fokus op Coetzee se gebruik van die liggaam as 'n figuur vir ingelyfde subjektiwiteit. Dit blyk dat die liggaam as 'n figuur van inlywing 'n prominente aspek van Coetzee se werk vorm deur sy loopbaan. As sodaning is dit 'n baie handige figuur om die dinamiek van inlywing te beskryf as 'n modus van voorstelling wat sigself koppel aan die materialiteit van die teks.

Esta dissertação busca estudar a relação entre escrita biográfica e imaginação histórica nas obras de João Manuel Pereira da Silva, especialmente em Plutarco Brasileiro. As vinte biografias produzidas pelo historiador nesse trabalho constituem a fonte principal desta pesquisa. A partir delas, é possível compreender o pensamento do autor sobre a utilização da capacidade imaginativa no trabalho historiográfico. / This dissertation seeks to study the relationship between biographical writing and historical imagination in the works of João Manuel Pereira da Silva, especially in Plutarco Brasileiro. The twenty biographies produced by the historian in this work constitute the main source of this research. From these, it is possible to understand the author's thinking about the use of the imaginative capacity in the historiographic work.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2007 / Bibliografia: f. 121-129

The Stillwater Complex J-M reef, the only economic platinum deposit in the United States, consists of a 0.5 to 4 m-thick stratiform horizon of PGE-rich sulfides in an Archean layered mafic intrusion. The origin of this reef has been studied extensively using geochemical methods, yet remains highly debated. Dynamic magmatic processes have been virtually ignored in these geochemical studies. Magnetic methods provide a proven inexpensive approach to offer rapid, and reproducible results to deliver insight into these dynamic processes. I propose to investigate the variations of magnetic properties of layered rocks of the Stillwater Complex in the stratigraphic vicinity of the J-M reef. In this study, detailed magnetic methods were performed on a 115 ft core containing the J-M reef and adjacent rocks. A previously undiscovered cyclicity of magnetic susceptibility was found in the hanging wall and J-M reef section. Further tests were performed to determine the origin of the magnetic cycles. The footwall section lacked the magnetic properties seen in the J-M reef and hanging wall rocks. Both anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, and high field magnetic data was collected at a high resolution interval along the core. It is possible that the results of this study can be used to constrain the origin of the ore body.

OLIVEIRA, Carlos Augusto Lima de. Vergonha, sacrifício e testemunho: 3 desmedidas para 3 romances de J. M. Coetzee. 2016. 183f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza, 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T11:15:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_caloliveira.pdf: 1076791 bytes, checksum: 6c5e30ac839ffa07f4836d90a7419858 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T14:57:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_caloliveira.pdf: 1076791 bytes, checksum: 6c5e30ac839ffa07f4836d90a7419858 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-06T14:57:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_caloliveira.pdf: 1076791 bytes, checksum: 6c5e30ac839ffa07f4836d90a7419858 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This study has as its starting point an articulation between literary discourse and testimonial speech, from the propositions of Giorgio Agamben about the idea of testimony as an Auctor speech, one who is authorized by others to report certain events. This idea of testimony differs from common sense, as something that testifies truthfully and objectively the events, but is much closer to the speech of the invention, where its veracity, and its ethical dimension, achieve what it lacks or even exceeds, reminding the Portuguese critic Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Thus, this study is interested in analyzing three novels of the South African writer J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians, The Iron Age and Disgrace) as testimonials clippings of changes that spend their narrators, both inside the South African context as in other dimensions symbolized there. A testimony where slips the burden of Shame, such as an ethical manifestation’ power, in that it points out the failure of models so far established (colonialism, Apartheid, the Western civilization project), and a sacrificial order where such narrators-witnesses dive. Sacrifice of white bodies, hitherto immune, legally protected, sacralized. Sacrifice as profanation. / O presente estudo tem como ponto de partida uma articulação entre o discurso literário e o discurso testemunhal, a partir das proposições de Giorgio Agamben a respeito da ideia do testemunho como um discurso de Auctor, aquele que é autorizado por outrem a relatar determinados eventos. Esta ideia de testemunho difere do senso comum, como algo que atesta com veracidade e objetividade os acontecimentos, mas está muito mais próxima do discurso de invenção, onde sua veracidade, e sua dimensão ética, estão mais para aquilo que lhe falta ou mesmo excede, para lembrar a crítica portuguesa Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Desta forma, interessa a este estudo analisar três romances do escritor sul-africano J.M. Coetzee (À Espera dos Bárbaros, A Idade do Ferro e Desonra) como recortes testemunhais das transformações por que passam seus narradores, tanto dentro do contexto da África do Sul, quanto em outras dimensões simbolizadas ali. Um testemunho onde resvala o peso da Vergonha, como potência de manifestação ética, na medida em que aponta a falência de modelos até então vigentes (colonialismo, Apartheid, o projeto de civilização ocidental), e de uma ordem sacrificial em que mergulham tais narradores-testemunhas. Sacrifício dos próprios corpos brancos, até então imunes, legalmente protegidos, sacralizados. Sacrifício como profanação.

Esta dissertação busca estudar a relação entre escrita biográfica e imaginação histórica nas obras de João Manuel Pereira da Silva, especialmente em Plutarco Brasileiro. As vinte biografias produzidas pelo historiador nesse trabalho constituem a fonte principal desta pesquisa. A partir delas, é possível compreender o pensamento do autor sobre a utilização da capacidade imaginativa no trabalho historiográfico. / This dissertation seeks to study the relationship between biographical writing and historical imagination in the works of João Manuel Pereira da Silva, especially in Plutarco Brasileiro. The twenty biographies produced by the historian in this work constitute the main source of this research. From these, it is possible to understand the author's thinking about the use of the imaginative capacity in the historiographic work.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-17T15:26:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-04-27. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-09-17T15:46:07Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000846761.pdf: 730205 bytes, checksum: 4b569900042e9a543285e201aa97a68d (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / L' objectif principal de ce travail est celui de démontrer les procédés utilisés par J.M.G. Le Clézio pour rendre le roman Le chercheur d'or (1985) un ensemble d'éléments mythiques et légendaires d'origines bien diversifées créant un récit qui ressemble à la poliphonie de Dostoiévski. L'écrivain utilise aussi le contexte historique des siècles XX et XXI pour accentuer les aspects associés à la realité de l'homme moderne et contemporain, démontrant comment le progrès technologique et les relations économiques peuvent nuire à l'être humain. Ainsi, les récits mythologiques et la réalité seront liés et les deux iront montrer à Alexis, le héros du roman, le chemin pour dévoiler le sens réel de son aventure en quête de l'or. Le chercheur d'or sera donc une oeuvre qui explore la realité réfléchie, en accord avec la théorie de Tânia Pellegrini (2009), car le roman met en valeur les événements historiques avec l'objectif de décrire ce qui est possible, mais pas nécessairement réel. En plus, l'interprétation mythologique, qui est été basée sur la théorie de Mircea Eliade (2011), ira soutenir l'idéologie interculturelle de Le Clézio et démontrer son habilité à mêler des genres du XIX siècle (le roman d'aventures) aux éléments du récit contemporain / O principal objetivo deste trabalho é mostrar como J.M.-G. Le Clézio consegue unir em Le chercheur d'or (1985) elementos do mundo mítico e lendário de diferentes origens, criando uma narrativa que se assemelha à polifonia dos romances de Dostoiévski. O autor utiliza-se também do contexto histórico dos séculos XX e XXI para evidenciar aspectos ligados à realidade do homem moderno e contemporâneo, mostrando como o progresso tecnológico e as relações econômicas afetam emocionalmente o ser humano. Desse modo, as narrativas mitológicas e a realidade estarão entrelaçadas e ambas irão mostrar a Alexis, herói do romance, o caminho para desvendar o verdadeiro significado de sua aventura na busca pelo ouro. Le chercheur d'or será, portanto, uma obra que explora a realidade refratada, de acordo com a teoria de Tânia Pellegrini (2009), pois destaca acontecimentos históricos com o objetivo de retratar algo possível, mas não necessariamente real. Além disso, a interpretação mitológica, baseada na teoria de Mircea Eliade (2011), servirá como suporte para que Le Clézio reafirme sua ideologia intercultural, ao mesmo tempo em que mostra sua habilidade em mesclar gêneros característicos do século XIX (romance de aventuras) a elementos da narrativa contemporânea

Boyhood (1997) is the first volume of Scenes from Provincial Life trilogy, written by the South-African J. M. Coetzee. Boyhood’s narrative has peculiar characteristics for an autobiographical novel, as the third person narrator and the use of Present Simple. This research’s hypothesis is that the protagonist, the boy John Coetzee, discovers himself and discovers himself within the apartheid regime; and this self-discovery is not done through the form of teaching or reporting from a conscious and rational narrative. The process of discovering himself within this regime occurs through its infantile conscience, puerile observations and the construction of the general protagonist’s perception. From this hypothesis, we discuss in this dissertation selfwritting narratives and traditional confessional narratives in literature, based on Coetzee’s theoretical studies, to later analyze some of the main features of the narrative in this novel to verify how non-religious confession techniques are present in Boyhood. Coetzee manipulates these confessional techniques avoiding the typical confessional narrative, present in authors like Augustine, J. J. Rousseau and Dostoevsky. In this study, we also observe that the narrative episodes are based on confession, a self-investigating method that highlights painful contents to be confessed. Among these contents, we noticed the feelings of guilt and shame are recurrent in most the protagonist’s experiences. Confessional narrative is a method that Coetzee uses to debug knowledge and to select themes presented in Boyhood, differently from traditional confessional narratives. / Boyhood (1997) é o primeiro volume da trilogia autobiográfica Scenes from Provincial Life, do escritor sul-africano J. M. Coetzee. A narrativa de Boyhood tem características peculiares para um romance autobiográfico, como o narrador em terceira pessoa e o uso do tempo presente. A hipótese de pesquisa é que o protagonista, o menino John Coetzee, descobre-se e descobre-se no regime do apartheid, e essa autodescoberta não se dá pela forma de ensinamento ou de relato a partir de uma narrativa consciente e racional. O processo de descobrir-se dentro desse regime dá-se através de sua consciência infantil, de observações pueris e da construção da percepção geral do protagonista. A partir dessa hipótese, discutimos nessa dissertação narrativas da escrita do eu e narrativas confessionais tradicionais na literatura, baseada em estudos teóricos de Coetzee, para, posteriormente, analisamos algumas das principais características da narrativa nessa obra para verificar como a técnicas de confissão não-religiosas estão presentes em Boyhood. Coetzee manipula essas técnicas evitando a típica narrativa confessional presente em autores como Agostinho, J. J. Rousseau e Dostoievski. Neste estudo, observamos também que os episódios da narrativa dão-se a partir da confissão, um método autoinvestigativo que traz à tona conteúdos dolorosos a serem confessados. Dentre esses conteúdos, também notamos que os sentimentos de culpa e de vergonha são recorrentes em boa parte dessas experiências do protagonista. A narrativa confessional é um método que Coetzee utiliza para depurar o conhecimento e selecionar os temas apresentados em Boyhood, diferente de narrativas confessionais tradicionais.

In introducing the four novels under discussion as a “History of Confession”, this study explores the resistance to the dominant discourse of ‘history’ offered by the sustained confessions of individuals. In examining Coetzee’s oeuvre it is possible to delineate the outline of a dialogue between cynicism and grace, and the effects of these on the process of confession in each of the works Chapter One, dealing with Age of Iron, draws on Levinas’ theory of ‘the Other’ in order to elucidate the role played by the interlocutor or confessor in the process of confession.The recognition of the passage of the self through the Other is integral to the attainment of a state of grace, without which confession cannot be brought to an end The countermanding claims of the writer's will-to-write and duty to society are illuminated as a source of cynicism which overwhelms the intervention of grace. The Master of Petersburg, discussed in Chapter Two, is a confession of the guilt and despair faced by the writer who sacrifices his soul to answer the urge to write. Chapter Three, which examines Coetzee’s excursion into autobiography, represents a continuation of the confessional trend. The distance between the narrator and protagonist of Boyhood illustrates the convolutions of self-deception in the process of confession. The chapter which deals with Disgrace identifies a new trend in Coetzee’s writing:the concern with animals. Levinas’ theory, which identifies the encounter with the Other as necessary to precipitate an intervention of grace, is again useful in explaining how Coetzee has postulated the unassimilable otherness of animals as primary to human ethical development. This chapter also concludes that Disgrace represents a high point in the recovery of both grace and agency in Coetzee’s oeuvre.The concluding chapter suggests that the accumulation of meanings to the term ‘grace’enables its definition as a semi-religious abstraction. Coetzee suggests that belief in its existence has the power to affect interactions on the physical plane, especially those between the self and the Other.

The thesis relates Coetzee’s focus on animals to his more familiar themes of the possibility of fiction as a vehicle for serious ethical issues, the interrogation of power and authority, a concern for the voiceless and the marginalised, a keen sense of justice and the question of secular salvation. The concepts developed in substantial analyses of The Lives of Animals and Disgrace are thereafter applied to several other works of Coetzee. The thesis attempts to position J.M. Coetzee within the animal rights debate and to assess his use of his problematic persona, Elizabeth Costello, who controversially uses reason to attack the rationalism of the Western philosophical tradition and who espouses the sympathetic imagination as a means of developing respect for animals. Costello’s challenge to the philosophers is problematised by being traced back to Plato’s original formulation of the opposition between philosophers and poets. It is argued that Costello represents a fallible Socratic figure who critiques not reason per se but an unqualified rationalism. This characterisation of Costello explains her preoccupation with raising the ethical awareness of her audience, as midwife to the birth of ideas, and perceptions of her as a wise fool, a characterisation that is confirmed by the use of Bakhtin’s notion of the Socratic dialogue as one of the precursors of the modern novel. Along with the Platonic/Socratic binary, Bakhtin’s concepts of polyphony, dialogism and monologism are applied to analyses of Coetzee’s fiction, which, in keeping with his anti-authoritarianism, is shown to be polyphonic. Costello’s apparently insensitive and repeated comparison of industrialised animal farms to Nazi concentration camps is likewise scrutinised. It is argued that the point of the comparison is to question the normality and humanity of societies that choose to ignore the suffering of animals in the animal exploitation industries. Her raising the question of this willed ignorance is related to Socrates’ maxim that evil is a result of ignorance, and Coetzee’s concern with the psychic cost to their humanity of those complicit in these industries is considered. David Lurie’s evocation of Holocaust imagery in Disgrace is also examined, as is the role of art and the sympathetic imagination in attaining a degree of grace. Platonic ideas on eros, beauty, art and immortality are found to be central to Coetzee’s fiction, not only to that relating to Costello but also to Disgrace and much of his other work. While acknowledging the importance of Plato, Coetzee continuously extends, tests and subverts his ideas, frequently subjecting them to carnivalistic play. Unexpected connections are made between Coetzee’s conception of the parent-child relationship, both biological and intellectual, and his notions of creativity, power and justice. Ideas of eating and fasting are explored in his fiction and related to the hunger-artistry of Franz Kafka. Coetzee’s ideas on animals, writing and diet are found to be essential to his notions of secular salvation and an ethical way of life. / Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / English / unrestricted