A Few Words of Reflection on Teaching, Literature, and Language: J.M. Coetzee in Conversation with Marek Pawlicki

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https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2020.15.04

Keywords:

J.M. Coetzee, Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito, teaching and learning processes, “death” and “alive” reading

Abstract

A conversation with J.M. Coetzee, carried out in the July of 2019 via mail, touches upon such topics as the learning and teaching processes, the teacher‒student and the writer‒reader relations, as well as the notions of “death” and “alive [way of] reading,” the influence of Polish literature (in particular the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert) on the Nobel laureate’s works, and the Anna Wierzbicka’a concept of natural semantic meta-language.

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2020-06-29

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Coetzee, J. M., & Pawlicki, M. (2020). A Few Words of Reflection on Teaching, Literature, and Language: J.M. Coetzee in Conversation with Marek Pawlicki. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 15(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2020.15.04

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2020): Post Masculinity. Presentations: John Maxwell Coetzee

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