Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel : from Leavis to Levinas / / Andrew Gibson

• Autore: Gibson Andrew <1949-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93353
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Postmodernity, ethics and the novel
• ISBN: 1-134-63864-7; 1-134-63865-5; 0-203-15865-2; 0-203-00718-2; 1-280-33508-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821039803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II