Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands

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dc.contributor.advisorKnox-Shaw, Peteren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPowers, Donalden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-06T11:06:14Z
dc.date.available2014-10-06T11:06:14Z
dc.date.issued2006en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationPowers, D. (2006). <i>Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationPowers, Donald. <i>"Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationPowers, D. 2006. Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Powers, Donald AB - 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. DA - 2006 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2006 T1 - Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands TI - Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationPowers D. Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2006 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8090en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleTextual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklandsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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