Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel / Andrew Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Andrew, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English fiction.

Postmodernism (Literature).

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American fiction.

French fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

French fiction.

Didactic fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Didactic fiction.

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Ethics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Dissolutions; Narrative and alterity; Ethics and unrepresentability; Ethics and 'the dissolution of the novel'; Events; Proustian ethics; Ethics of the event: Beckett; Responses; Sensibility; Reception and receptivity; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-63864-7

1-134-63865-5

0-203-15865-2

0-203-00718-2

1-280-33508-4

9780203007181

OCLC:

56993501