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Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel / Andrew Gibson

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Gibson, Andrew, 1949-
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
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Contents
pt. I. Dissolutions -- 1. Narrative and alterity -- 2. Ethics and unrepresentability -- 3. Ethics and 'the dissolution of the novel' -- pt. II. Events -- 4. Proustian ethics -- 5. Ethics of the event: Beckett -- pt. III. Responses -- 6. Sensibility -- 7. Reception and receptivity.
Summary
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 is its concentration on a range of modernist and postmodern novels which have seldom if ever served as the basis for a larger ethical theory of fiction. Postmodernity, Ethics and the.
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0203158652 (electronic bk.)
9780203158654 (electronic bk.)
0203007182 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader)
9780203007181 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader)
041519895X (alk. paper)
9780415198950 (alk. paper)
0415198968 (alk. paper)
9780415198967 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
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