Coetzee's Hughesian animals

Claire Heaney

pp. 69-85

in: Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford (eds), Ted Hughes, nature and culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Abstract

This chapter explores the complex of competing ideas in J. M. Coetzee's character Elizabeth Costello's reading of Hughes, and the ways in which her reading casts light on, or obscures, Coetzee's own perspectives on animal rights, artistic creation and literary criticism.