comment on Cotezee observation about cricket on playground
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Explanation:
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop ideas that have their origins in
several feelings I have had, and continue to have, about the writing of J.M. Coetzee and
the field of study that surrounds him. I use the word “feelings” not because I wish to be
less than precise in my thinking, but because the ideas and arguments that fill this
dissertation began as feelings—as acutely felt intuitions about the workings of the
literature I was trying to understand: as a feeling of conviction about what was missing in
Coetzee studies; as a feeling of frustration about what seemed to be a lack of concern
among literary scholars for the unique ways in which novelists think and write about the
fiction writing process; and as a feeling of excitement about the importance of Coetzee’s
early writing to both a proper understanding of his novels and to a proper understanding
of how Coetzee’s thoughts on the craft of writing color his theories on literature in
profound ways.
This dissertation is my attempt to transform these feelings and beliefs into
writing. It is also my attempt to explore what I call problems of literature as they appear,
and are worked through, in Coetzee’s essays and fiction. What I mean by the term
problems of literature, and how these problems (and Coetzee’s attempts to solve them)
figure into my greater project, is discussed in the latter half of this introduction