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- The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
- The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Relations
- Part III Mediations
- 11 Other Arts and Adaptations
- 12 Philosophies
- 13 Lives and Archives
- 14 Publics and Personas
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
11 - Other Arts and Adaptations
from Part III - Mediations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2020
- The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
- The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Relations
- Part III Mediations
- 11 Other Arts and Adaptations
- 12 Philosophies
- 13 Lives and Archives
- 14 Publics and Personas
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Music, dance, film, and photography have been a consistent feature of J. M. Coetzee’s fiction. The importance of these ‘other arts’ has been reinforced by recent biographical and archive-based accounts of the author’s life and work, with further evidence of the creative energy given to possible and realized adaptations and collaborations with artists, composers, and film-makers. This chapter explores a selection of references to these other arts from across the Coetzee corpus, with particular attention to the representation of aesthetic experience, claims about the distinctive capacities of non-literary art forms, and the relationship of these other arts to writing, self-reflexivity, and the body. It concludes with a consideration of adaptations of the novels for film and opera.
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- The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee , pp. 187 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020