Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: J. M. Coetzee se werke ondersoek dikwels op intense en ongewone wyse wat kreatiwiteit
is en hoe dit werk, wat die bronne en oorspronge daarvan is, en verwonder sig aan die
onvoorspelbaarheid van die voorwaardes en katalisators vir, en die aard en uitkomste
van, die kreatiewe proses. Hierdie essay ondersoek eerstens die teoretisering van
literêre kreatiwiteit deur veral Derek Attridge, wat hy hoofsaaklik baseer op Coetzee se
werk. Tweedens word die komplekse uitbeeldings – of performance – van kreatiwiteit en
die kreatiewe proses in Coetzee se oeuvre, spesifiek aan die hand van The Master of
Petersburg en die post-Disgrace werke, ontleed. Daar word gefokus op skeppende
karakters en alter ego’s, veral skrywers, wat toenemend hul verskyning in Coetzee se
prosa maak. Kwessies van skrywerlike mag, die etiek van skryf, die konflik tussen
werklikheidsvlakke binne fiksie asook tussen werklikheid en fiksie, soos dit uitspeel in die
hibriede en eksperimentele laat werke, kom aan bod. Die essay maak dikwels van
stipleestegnieke gebruik in die lees van die betrokke werke. Ander strategieë word egter
ook ingespan, veral by die lees van die laat werke. Die siening van kreatiewe impuls wat
aldus blyk, is ‘n radikale een. Kreatiwiteit is blind vir moraliteit en dalk selfs etiek. Dit
word onder andere gelykgestel aan die epileptiese val. Dit gaan oor die oopstelling vir –
en die eksklusiewe verantwoordelikheid teenoor – die onverwagse, die
Beckettiaanse/Derridiaanse proses van ‘n produktiewe/onproduktiewe gewag. Dit word
vergestalt deur ‘n gebeurtenis wat beslag vind in die onverminderbare eiesoortigheid van
die literêre werk. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: J. M. Coetzee’s work often investigates in an intense and unusual manner the nature of
creativity and how it works, what the sources and origins of creativity are, and marvels
at the unpredictability of the preconditions and catalysts for, and the nature and
outcomes of, the creative process. This essay investigates, in the first place, the
theorisation of literary creativity by especially Derek Attridge, which he mainly bases on
Coetzee’s work. In the second instance, the complex portrayals – or performances – of
creativity and the creative process in Coetzee’s oeuvre are analysed, particularly with
reference to The Master of Petersburg and the post-Disgrace works. The focus is on
creative characters, particularly authors, who are increasingly making an appearance in
Coetzee’s prose. Questions of authorial power, the ethics of writing, the conflict of reality
levels within fiction as well as between reality and fiction, as it plays out in the hybird
and experimental late works, are presented. The essay often uses close reading in the
reading of the mentioned works. Other strategies are also used, particularly in the
reading of the late works. The view of the creative impulse thus crystallising, is a radical
one. Creativity is blind to morality, and perhaps also ethics. It is equated, inter alia, to
the epileptic fit. It is about the opening up – and the exclusive responsibility – to the
unexpected, to the Beckettian/Derridian process of a productive/unproductive waiting. It
is represented by a happening which precipitates in the irreducible singularity of the
literary work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/71919 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Naude, Stephanus Jacobus |
| Contributors | Van Niekerk, Marlene, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | af_ZA |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 97 p. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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