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Excess as Ek-stasis: Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Giving Offense

Excess as Ek-stasis: Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Giving Offense Anthony Uhlm Ann Excess as Ek-s tasis Coetzee’s e Th Master of Petersburg and Giving Oen ff se i Th s paper will develop a reading of J. M. Coetzee’s novel e Th Master of Petersburg (4) 991 alongside ideas that Coetzee develops in Giving Oe ff nse: Essays on Censor - ship, which was published in 1996 by the University of Chicago Press the year he began teaching as a visiting Professor at the Committee of Social Thought at Chi- cago. That elements of these two books might be related can be inferred from the overlap involved in the writing process of each (the first essay in Giving Oe ff nse appeared in print in 1988 and Coetzee worked on essays related to the book from then until 1996). e Th Master of Petersburg appeared after Age of Iron (1990) and was followed by Disgrace in 1999. It might be paired with Foe , which appeared in 16,98 as a novel that explicitly engages with the work of another novelist: Daniel Defoe in Foe and Dostoevsky in e Th Master of Petersburg . This essay will consider how an understanding of excess that involves thinking outside of or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Excess as Ek-stasis: Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and Giving Offense

The Comparatist , Volume 38 – Oct 31, 2014

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Anthony Uhlm Ann Excess as Ek-s tasis Coetzee’s e Th Master of Petersburg and Giving Oen ff se i Th s paper will develop a reading of J. M. Coetzee’s novel e Th Master of Petersburg (4) 991 alongside ideas that Coetzee develops in Giving Oe ff nse: Essays on Censor - ship, which was published in 1996 by the University of Chicago Press the year he began teaching as a visiting Professor at the Committee of Social Thought at Chi- cago. That elements of these two books might be related can be inferred from the overlap involved in the writing process of each (the first essay in Giving Oe ff nse appeared in print in 1988 and Coetzee worked on essays related to the book from then until 1996). e Th Master of Petersburg appeared after Age of Iron (1990) and was followed by Disgrace in 1999. It might be paired with Foe , which appeared in 16,98 as a novel that explicitly engages with the work of another novelist: Daniel Defoe in Foe and Dostoevsky in e Th Master of Petersburg . This essay will consider how an understanding of excess that involves thinking outside of or

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