No Higher Life: Bio-aesthetics in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace

作者: Carrie Rohman

DOI: 10.1353/MFS.2014.0040

关键词: ArtOperaSpecies barrierAestheticsArticulation (sociology)

摘要: This essay theorizes the aesthetic in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace as a tendency of living-in-general through an emphasis on protagonist’s devolving chamber opera. The bio-aesthetic this articulation profoundly exceeds domain human and should be viewed creaturely orientation life to other life. species barrier is therefore rendered porous becominganimal art novel. becoming leads protagonist toward eroticoartistic posture that margins properly “human” world.

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