Arguing in a Different Voice: Exploring heteronymy in Essayistic Writing through Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello
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https://doi.org/10.4454/syn.v6.1434Keywords:
Essay, Voice, Realism, J.M Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, DialogismAbstract
This paper proposes a reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003) through the lens of heteronymy, a concept first introduced by Fernando Pessoa, and situates the novel within the literary tradition of ‘fictional self-portraits’, a genre that merges essayistic argumentation with realist narrative techniques. By adopting the voice of the protagonist, Coetzee employs a literary ‘thinking device’ that enables conceptual and emotional explorations not typically accessible through conventional novelistic or essayistic forms.
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