Stranger Shores (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: J. M. Coetzee
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary criticism and literary history
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Literary criticism
It is not too strong a description to call the opening essay of J. M. Coetzee’s Stranger Shores a declaration of intellectual intention. In accepting the challenge proposed by the essay’s title—“What Is a Classic?”—Coetzee begins his provocative and enlightening examination of literary achievement with an assertion of standards and values, presented with a confident, authoritative tone suggested by the essay’s subtitle, “A Lecture.” While this appellation is informative, since the essay was developed from a lecture Coetzee delivered in Austria in 1991, its...
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