Diary of a Bad Year

Author	: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2015-05-28
ISBN 10	: 9781407086491
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Diary of a Bad Year written by J.M. Coetzee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya is not interested in politics, but the job will be a welcome distraction, as will the writer's evident attraction towards her. Her boyfriend, Alan, is an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh economic terms. Suspicious of his trophy girlfriend's new pastime, Alan begins to formulate a plan...

Diary of a Very Bad Year

Author	: Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Release Date	: 2010-06-22
ISBN 10	: 9780061992407
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (619 users)

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Download or read book Diary of a Very Bad Year written by Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.” — James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds “A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.” — Booklist “n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative.” — Malcolm Gladwell A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.

The Event of Postcolonial Shame

Author	: Timothy Bewes
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Release Date	: 2010-11-22
ISBN 10	: 9781400836499
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book The Event of Postcolonial Shame written by Timothy Bewes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.

Diary of a Bad Year

Author	: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher	: Text Publishing
Release Date	: 2012-04-26
ISBN 10	: 9781921922367
Pages	: 202 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (219 users)

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Download or read book Diary of a Bad Year written by J. M. Coetzee and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing. An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya’s boyfriend scorns the writer and schemes against him. With its three simultaneous voices, Diary of a Bad Year is not only a novel about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love, it changes the logic of reading itself.

J M Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression

Author	: Alexandra Effe
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2017-08-16
ISBN 10	: 9783319601014
Pages	: 172 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (196 users)

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Download or read book J M Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression written by Alexandra Effe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

Word Art Gesture Art Tone Art

Author	: Hanns-Werner Heister
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2023-03-06
ISBN 10	: 9783031201097
Pages	: 719 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (312 users)

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Download or read book Word Art Gesture Art Tone Art written by Hanns-Werner Heister and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike. Presenting an in-depth systematical and historical analysis of the evolution of word and gesture art, it gives extensive information on the anthropological, biological, and physiological influences and interactions in music and beyond. The book gives a unique definition of the genuinely vocal and instrumental from their generative deep structure: They derive from and are determined in their production by the duality of voice and hands, and in terms of product as the tone or ‘tonal’ on the one hand, and the percussive, that is noise plus rhythm, on the other. This book succeeds in bringing together perspectives from art, and from natural and social sciences, merging them to offer new explanations about the relationship between the vocal and instrumental, and eventually about the origins of music, arts, and language. It offers new perspectives on the intertwining between the vocal and the instrumental, specifically in the context of the expressions of human languages. At the same time, this book aims at clarifying and explaining the role of words and gestures in different contexts, such as society and communication, education, and arts.

Present Imperfect

Author	: Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2017-05-19
ISBN 10	: 9780192512536
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (925 users)

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Download or read book Present Imperfect written by Andrew van der Vlies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers' treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture-including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers - some known to international Anglophone readers including J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoë Wicomb, some slightly less well-known including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach, and others from a new generation including Songeziwe Mahlangu and Masande Ntshanga. It addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as 'South African' in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present.

A Companion to the Works of J M Coetzee

Author	: Tim Mehigan
Publisher	: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date	: 2014-02
ISBN 10	: 9781571139023
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (711 users)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of J M Coetzee written by Tim Mehigan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader.

Diary of a Bad Year

Author	: Lance Herman
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: OCLC:695028625
Pages	: 260 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (695 users)

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Revolution and Non Violence in Tolstoy Gandhi and Mandela

Author	: Imraan Coovadia
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2020-07-21
ISBN 10	: 9780192609083
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (926 users)

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Download or read book Revolution and Non Violence in Tolstoy Gandhi and Mandela written by Imraan Coovadia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dangers of political violence and the possibilities of non-violence were the central themes of three lives which changed the twentieth century—Leo Tolstoy, writer and aristocrat who turned against his class, Mohandas Gandhi who corresponded with Tolstoy and considered him the most important person of the time, and Nelson Mandela, prisoner and statesman, who read War and Peace on Robben Island and who, despite having led a campaign of sabotage, saw himself as a successor to Gandhi. Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela tried to create transformed societies to replace the dying forms of colony and empire. They found the inequalities of Russia, India, and South Africa intolerable yet they questioned the wisdom of seizing the power of the state, creating new kinds of political organisation and imagination to replace the old promises of revolution. Their views, along with their ways of leading others, are closely connected, from their insistence on working with their own hands and reforming their individual selves to their acceptance of death. On three continents, in a century of mass mobilization and conflict, they promoted strains of nationalism devoid of antagonism, prepared to take part in a general peace. Looking at Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela in sequence, taking into account their letters and conversations as well as the institutions they created or subverted, placing at the centre their treatment of the primal fantasy of political violence, this volume reveals a vital radical tradition which stands outside the conventional categories of twentieth-century history and politics.

Senor C s view on Anya in J M Coetzee s Diary of a Bad Year

Author	: Franz Kröber
Publisher	: GRIN Verlag
Release Date	: 2011-09-13
ISBN 10	: 9783656005797
Pages	: 7 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (56 users)

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Download or read book Senor C s view on Anya in J M Coetzee s Diary of a Bad Year written by Franz Kröber and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Surveying English Literature: Biographical Fiction, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der alternde Schriftsteller in J.M. Coetzees "Diary of a Bad Year" verliert sich immer mehr in seiner Verzückung über seine attraktive Sekretärin und Nachbarin Anya. Allerdings scheint seine Ansicht von Anya und von Frauen im Allgemeinen deutlich von der Realität des fiktionalen, verschiedene Perspektiven enthaltenden Tagebuches abzuweichen. Im vorliegenden Essay werden Senor C.s Meinungen über Anya von der Darstellung seiner Angebetenen durch den Autor und durch die Figur selbst sorgfältig getrennt.

This Space of Writing

Author	: Stephen Mitchelmore
Publisher	: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date	: 2015-12-11
ISBN 10	: 9781782799818
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (827 users)

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Download or read book This Space of Writing written by Stephen Mitchelmore and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does 'literature' mean in our time? While names like Proust, Kafka and Woolf still stand for something, what that something actually is has become obscured by the claims of commerce and journalism. Perhaps a new form of attention is required. Stephen Mitchelmore began writing online in 1996 and became Britain's first book blogger soon after, developing the form so that it can respond in kind to the singular space opened by writing. Across 44 essays, he discusses among many others the novels of Richard Ford, Jeanette Winterson and Karl Ove Knausgaard, the significance for modern writers of cave paintings and the moai of Easter Island, and the enduring fallacy of 'Reality Hunger', all the while maintaining a focus on the strange nature of literary space. By listening to the echoes and resonances of writing, this book enables a unique encounter with literature that many critics habitually ignore. With an introduction by the acclaimed novelist Lars Iyer, This Space of Writing offers a renewed appreciation of the mystery and promise of writing.

Theory of the Gimmick

Author	: Sianne Ngai
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 2020-06-16
ISBN 10	: 9780674245310
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (742 users)

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Download or read book Theory of the Gimmick written by Sianne Ngai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention). Focusing on this connection to work, Ngai draws a line from gimmicks to political economy. When we call something a gimmick, we are registering uncertainties about value bound to labor and time—misgivings that indicate broader anxieties about the measurement of wealth in capitalism. With wit and critical precision, Ngai explores the extravagantly impoverished gimmick across a range of examples: the fiction of Thomas Mann, Helen DeWitt, and Henry James; photographs by Torbjørn Rødland; the video art of Stan Douglas; the theoretical writings of Stanley Cavell and Theodor Adorno. Despite its status as cheap and compromised, the gimmick emerges as a surprisingly powerful tool in this formidable contribution to aesthetic theory.

Leopard s Leap Booklover s Reward

Author	: Janine Hoek
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: OCLC:951735346
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (951 users)

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Metaphysical Exile

Author	: Robert Pippin
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 2021
ISBN 10	: 9780197565940
Pages	: 157 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (975 users)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Exile written by Robert Pippin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Pippin presents here the first detailed interpretation of J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" trilogy as a whole. Pippin treats the three fictions as a philosophical fable. Everyone in the mythical land explored by Coetzee is an exile, removed from their homeland and transported to a strange new place. While discussing the social and psychological dimensions of the fable, Pippin also treats the literary aspects of the fictions as philosophical explorations of theimplications of a deeper kind of homelessness--a version that characterizes late modern life itself--and he treats the theme of forgetting as a figure for modern historical amnesia and indifference to reflection and self-knowledge.

Summary of Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager s Diary of a Very Bad Year

Author	: Everest Media,
Publisher	: Everest Media LLC
Release Date	: 2022-05-30T22:59:00Z
ISBN 10	: 9798822526051
Pages	: 14 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (225 users)

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Download or read book Summary of Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager s Diary of a Very Bad Year written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-30T22:59:00Z with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The dollar is weak today, but that doesn’t mean it will be weak forever. Over the long term, currency processes tend to be fairly stable and mean-reverting. The dollar is a First World country with a weak currency. #2 The author went back and looked at his portfolio, and noticed that any position he had that was euro-bullish and dollar-bearish was going to be reversed, because everyone at the table was already bearish on the dollar. He was able to see when the paradigm was going to shift. #3 A paradigm shift in finance is what happened with the subprime market and the spillover it has had in other markets. People assumed that because something was rated triple-A, it was money-good, when in reality, that was not the case. #4 The attractiveness of a trade depends on the historical data used to evaluate it. If you use historical data from a time when people weren’t actively doing the trade, and then suddenly everyone is doing it, the behavior of the trade will be different.

From Solidarity to Schisms

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Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2009-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9789042027039
Pages	: 327 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (42 users)

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Download or read book From Solidarity to Schisms written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.