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082			_a809.93353 _bGIB/P
100			_aGibson, Andrew
245	1	0	_aPostmodernity, ethics and the novel: from Leavis to Levinas
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c1999
300			_aix,230p.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aIn 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 Novel discusses among others the writings of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.
650			_aAmerican fiction-history and criticism
650	0		_aEnglish fiction-history and criticism
650	0		_aEnglish literature
942			_cBK
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