1st Edition
Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel From Leavis to Levinas
By Andrew Gibson
Copyright 1999
242 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and discusses a particular aspect of Levinas' thought and raises questions for that thought and its bearing on the novel. It also contains detailed analyses of particular texts. Part of the book's originality... Read more
Introduction PART I Dissolutions 1 Narrative and alterity 2 Ethics and unrepresentability 3 Ethics and ‘the dissolution of the novel’ PART II Events 4 Proustian ethics 5 Ethics of the event: Beckett PART III Responses 6 Sensibility 7 Reception and receptivity
Biography
Andrew Gibson is Dircetor of the MA in Postmodernism, Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London.
'There is a level of mastery in these discussions, and indeed a range of it, that is consistently stimulating, both in the handling of novelists and theorists.' - David Rudrum, European Journal of English Studies
'This is a provocative and highly ambitious project.' - Simon Malpas and Kate McGowan, Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory
