Andrew Gibson's Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas PDF

By Andrew Gibson

ISBN-10: 041519895X

ISBN-13: 9780415198950

ISBN-10: 0415198968

ISBN-13: 9780415198967

In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson units out to illustrate that postmodern thought has truly made attainable a moral discourse round fiction.
every one bankruptcy elaborates and discusses a selected element of Levinas' idea and increases questions for that notion and its referring to the radical. It additionally comprises unique analyses of specific texts. a part of the book's originality is its focus on various modernist and postmodern novels that have seldom if ever served because the foundation for a bigger moral idea of fiction.
Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel discusses between others the writings of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.

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