Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to LevinasIn 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. |
Contents
Narrative and alterity | 25 |
James Gather and the Zwischen | 29 |
Excendance | 36 |
some postmodern fiction | 41 |
Ethnics and unrepresentability | 54 |
Heart of Darkness and the limits of representation | 57 |
Ethics and the postmodern sublime | 66 |
Negativity and melancholia | 76 |
Ethics of the event Beckett | 134 |
Becketts later prose | 140 |
Badiou and Beckett | 146 |
Responses | 159 |
Sensibility | 161 |
sensibility and expenditure | 164 |
Suffering and staging in Rhys | 167 |
Cornell Nin and fissures in reality | 173 |
Ethics and the dissolution of the novel | 85 |
Johnson Pinget | 91 |
Bowen and the sphere of the common | 99 |
Events | 109 |
Proustian ethics | 111 |
The double logic of the Recherche | 117 |
Marcels others | 123 |
Reception and receptivity | 186 |
Blanchot and the innocence of reading | 189 |
The splitspace of reception | 194 |
reading East to West | 201 |
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