Encountering Disgrace: reading and teaching Coetzee's novel

Introduction / Bill McDonald

"We are not asked to condemn": sympathy, subjectivity, and the narration of Disgrace / Michael G. McDunnah

Beyond sympathy: a Bakhtinian reading of Disgrace / James Boobar

"Is it too late to educate the eye?": David Lurie, Richard of St. Victor, and "vision as eros" in Disgrace / Bill McDonald

Disgrace and the neighbor: an interchange with Bill McDonald / Kenneth Reinhard

To live as dogs or pigs live under us: accepting what's on offer in Disgrace / Pat Harrigan

Tenuous arrangements: the ethics of rape in Disgrace / Kim Middleton and Julie Townsend

Dis(g)race, or white man writing / Sandra D. Shattuck

Clerk in a post-religious age: reading Lurie's remnant romantic temperament in Disgrace / Gary Hawkins

Saying it right in Disgrace: David Lurie, Faust, and the romantic conception of language / Patricia Casey Sutcliffe

The dispossession of David Lurie / Kevin O'Neill

Community reading: teaching Disgrace in an alternative college classroom / Matthew Gray

Out of the father's house into a community of readers / Kathy Ogren

Sympathy for the devil: on the perversity of teaching Disgrace / Daniel Kiefer

Teaching Disgrace in the large lecture classroom / Nancy Best

Discussing Disgrace in a critical theory class / Bradley Butterfield

Disgrace in the classroom: a tale of two teaching strategies / Raymond Obstfeld

The bodies of others: a meditation on the environs of reading J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Caryl Phillip's The Nature of blood / Jane Creighton

Disgrace as a teacher / Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann.