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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821039803321

Autore

Gibson Andrew <1949->

Titolo

Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel / / Andrew Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-63864-7

1-134-63865-5

0-203-15865-2

0-203-00718-2

1-280-33508-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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