Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel by Gibson, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION

Notes

Part I: DISSOLUTIONS

1: NARRATIVE AND ALTERITY

Narrating subject and narrated object James, Cather and the Zwischen Crossing the present: some postmodern fiction Notes

2: ETHICS AND UNREPRESENTABILITY

From Leavis to Levinas Heart of Darkness and the limits of representation Ethics and the postmodern sublime Negativity and melancholia Notes

3: ETHICS AND ‘THE DISSOLUTION OF THE NOVEL’

Multiplicity and fission The circuit-breakers: Johnson, Pinget Bowen and ‘the sphere of the common’ Notes

Part II: EVENTS

4: PROUSTIAN ETHICS

Levinas and Proust The double logic of the Recherche Marcel’s others Notes

5: ETHICS OF THE EVENT: BECKETT

Ethical saying The force of interruption: Beckett’s later prose Badiou and Beckett Notes

Part III: RESPONSES

6: SENSIBILITY

A brief history of modern sensibility Levinas, Bataille: sensibility and expenditure Suffering and ‘staging’ in Rhys Cornell, Nih and ‘fissures in reality’ Notes

7: RECEPTION AND RECEPTIVITY

Phenomenology and the ego Blanchot and ‘the innocence of reading’ The ‘split-space’ of reception Karatani, Rushdie: reading East to West Notes

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