“The Origins of Speech Lie in Song”: Music as Language in Coetzee’s Age of Iron
In Disgrace, David Lurie finds preposterous the proposition that “Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other”, privately believing that, on the contrary, “the origins of speech lie in song” (Coetzee 2000: 3-4). In my 2010...
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University of Udine
2020-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/1139 |