Title Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel / Andrew Gibson

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Postmodernism (Literature) American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Didactic fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Criticism -- History -- 20th century Ethics in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian. Criticism Ethics in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Postmodernisme. Romans. Ethiek. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203158652 9780203158654 0203007182 9780203007181 041519895X 9780415198950 0415198968 9780415198967

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