Essays about: "David Lurie"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words David Lurie.

  1. 1. Mind or Body : Patriarchal binary thought and the role of sex in Disgrace

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Yrr Åslund; [2021]
    Keywords : Keywords: gender; sex; power; sexuality; race; Coetzee; Disgrace; Cixous; patriarchal binary thought.;

    Abstract : David Lurie, the main character in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, is a white middle-aged man who lives in South Africa. He is a South African man but seems to think of himself as a European man and the story plays out in a post-colonial setting. READ MORE

  3. 2. Rape and Silence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Linda Melkner Moser; [2012]
    Keywords : Rape; silence; sexual violence; South Africa; J.M. Coetzee; Disgrace; Melanie Isaacs; Lucy Lurie; David Lurie; sexual scripts; rape myths;

    Abstract : This essay discusses rape and silence in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, with focus on how and why the characters Melanie and Lucy are silenced after being raped. READ MORE

  4. 3. A journey towards individuation : A study of David Lurie, Through the theories of C.G.Jung

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Monica Sopelsa; [2010]
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    Abstract : This essay is a Jungian reading of J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. The aim with the essay is to explore to what extent C. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Hero in Disgrace : The patterns of a hero in David Lurie's twist of fate

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Jon Petersson Hjärne; [2009]
    Keywords : Disgrace; Hero; Joseph Campbell; J.M. Coetzee;

    Abstract : In this essay I look at J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace from a rather different perspective. I argue that, despite his less than heroic attributes, David Lurie is the protagonist of an adventure and follows Joseph Campbell’s pattern of the hero’s ditto. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Higher Life : A Postcolonialist Analysis of Coetzee's Disgrace

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Anna-Marie Vanky; [2008]
    Keywords : Post-colonialism; Fanon; Disgrace; Byron;

    Abstract : J M Coetzee’s Disgrace deals with race and power in contemporary, post-colonial South Africa. This prize-winning novel is written after the country's first all-race elections, in 1994. READ MORE