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- Title: Reading in the In-Between: Pre-Scripting the "Postscript" to Elizabeth Costello.
- Author : Journal of Literary Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
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Summary By offering a close reading and analysis of "Postscript", the text that concludes Coetzee's collection of "lessons" in his 2003 book E/izabeth Costello, in conjunction with Hofmannsthal's 1902 "Chandos Letter" (including brief reference to the Nobel Address "He and His Man"), the essay demonstrates the implications of palimpsestuous reading. Informed by Gerard Genette's study of the palimpsest as a mode of literary presentation particularly suited to poststructuralist understandings of the disassociation between author and protagonist, the essay argues, furthermore, that palimpsestuous writing articulates the conjunctive double of language and fiction as, philosophically speaking, the general and every single person's writing/reading as particular at the point where mutually historicising and historicised imaginings intersect along an elliptical axis connecting diachronic distance and synchronic proximity.