TY - JOUR

T1 - Jacques Rancière, J.M. Coetzee, and Doing Things Oneself

AU - Lupton, Tina Jane

PY - 2023/12

Y1 - 2023/12

N2 - Jacques Rancière and J. M. Coetzee, exact contemporaries, are both interested the worker’s access to aesthetic experience. In Rancière’s case, this involves looking backward to the fact that nineteenth-century workers were able to squeeze time from their working lives for art and literature. In Coetzee’s case, however, this problem of distributing aesthetic sensibility turns out to be a matter of looking forward in history, and of his own practice. How is he to write in a way that does not unfairly exempt him from work?

AB - Jacques Rancière and J. M. Coetzee, exact contemporaries, are both interested the worker’s access to aesthetic experience. In Rancière’s case, this involves looking backward to the fact that nineteenth-century workers were able to squeeze time from their working lives for art and literature. In Coetzee’s case, however, this problem of distributing aesthetic sensibility turns out to be a matter of looking forward in history, and of his own practice. How is he to write in a way that does not unfairly exempt him from work?

U2 - 10.1353/nlh.2024.a922187

DO - 10.1353/nlh.2024.a922187

M3 - Journal article

VL - 54

SP - 1595

EP - 1611

JO - New Literary History

JF - New Literary History

SN - 0028-6087

IS - 4

ER -