ABSTRACT
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 Novel discusses among others the writings of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|86 pages
Dissolutions
chapter 1|29 pages
Narrative and Alterity
chapter 2|31 pages
Ethics and Unrepresentability
chapter 3|24 pages
ETHICS and ‘The Dissolution of the Novel’
part II|50 pages
Events
chapter 4|23 pages
Proustian Ethics
chapter 5|25 pages
22 Ethics of the Event: Beckett
part III|54 pages
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