On The Image Of Intellectuals In Coutche's Australian Novels

John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African writer who writes in English.Since2003,Coetzee settled in Australia.Works on intellectuals appeared several times on account of Coetzee's personal character.As a group,the images of intellectuals in the period of Australia have a large degree of commonality.This thesis starts from this group.It summarizes the mutual spiritual burden of the intellectuals,and then it can extended to how the intellectuals and the writer behind them get over realistic circumstances and individual's limitation,how they express humanistic care under unique concept of time and space in the age of globalization.This thesis falls into three parts:introduction,the text(three chapters altogether)and conclusion.The introduction includes the reason of selecting this topic,overseas and domestic research status of J.M.Coetzee's works,research situation and trend of intellectuals' images in it,and the innovation of the thesis.The text consists of three chapters.Chapter one introduces intellectual protagonists in the three works in the period of Australia: Elizabeth in Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons,Se?or C in Diary of a Bad Year,John Coetzee in Summertime.Integrating their tracks,lives,and states of mind,we can discover their spiritual tendencies.From this we turn to the second chapter,The Intellectuals' Spiritual Burden.From what they thought and did,we can see the inner burden on their shoulders,including the sense of history,responsibility,incapability and shame.This is a reflection from personal intellectual and spiritual pursuit to contradictions and conflicts caused by realistic condition.Thereout,Chapter 3,named Realistic Circumstances and Humanistic Care of the Intellectuals,reveals intellectuals' concern and deep inquiries,which are comprised of the intellectuals' realistic circumstances,self-inspect and self-criticism,the intellectuals' humanistic care under their diagnosisand cross-examination of contemporary worldwide focal issues.The concluding part is once again settled in the significance of the intellectual group and Coetzee's concern about these problems,giving a brief demonstration to the possibility of classical generation of his works.