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Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
Includes bibliographical references.
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2014
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| author | Powers, Donald |
| author2 | Knox-Shaw, Peter |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8090 Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands Powers, Donald Knox-Shaw, Peter English Literature Includes bibliographical references. In this dissertation I examine through a close reading of J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) the textual dymamic that impels the two narrator-protagonists toward the solipsist position - the ground of the true Cartesian. I show how Eugene Dawn and Jacobus Coetzee are presented as products of Western print culture and children of René Descartes: literate and acutely self-conscious. I note how each conceives himself according to Descartes' mind-body dualism as primarily a thinking thing. I argue that this self-conception is reinforced by their paradoxical presence-as-absence as figures in a fiction. 2014-10-06T11:06:14Z 2014-10-06T11:06:14Z 2006 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | English Literature Powers, Donald Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands |
| title_full | Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands |
| title_fullStr | Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands |
| title_short | Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands |
| title_sort | textual solipsism in j m coetzee s dusklands |
| topic | English Literature |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090 |
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