Creative intuition : Coetzee, Plato, Bergson, and Murnane

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Abstract

This chapter has two parts. The first concerns the concept of intuition and how it might relate to the truth in The Childhood of Jesus. The second offers a reading of the novel in relation to Gerald Murnane’s work, further reflecting on the question of how truth might be conveyed in fiction.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJ. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things
EditorsJennifer Rutherford, Anthony Uhlmann
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Pages107-128
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781501318634
ISBN (Print)9781501318627
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
  • Murnane, Gerald, 1939-
  • The Childhood of Jesus
  • intuition

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