Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel : From Leavis to Levinas
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415198968
ISBN-13
9780415198967
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 17th, 1999
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
308 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 20.80 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryCultural studiesCultural studies
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Concerned with the possibilty of a postmodern ethics of reading. Each chapter discusses a particular aspects of Levina's thought and also contained detailed analysis of particular texts.
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.
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.
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