Levinas And Twentieth-century Literature: Ethics And The Reconstitution Of Subjectivity

Synopsis

Introduction: Levinas, The Twentieth Century, And Its Literature: From Ethical Trauma To The Reconstitution Of Subjectivity / Donald R. Wehrs -- Emmanuel Levinas, 1906-1995: A Twentieth-century Intellectual Life / Donald R. Wehrs -- There Are Things That Can't Be Said: Levinas And The Ethics Of Representation In Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room / Rebecca Nicholson-weir -- Milne And The Tonstant Weaders: A Levinasian Case For Winnie-the-pooh And The House At Pooh Corner / Lorna Wood -- Fidelity To Sexual Difference: Feminism, Levinas, And Duras's The Ravishing Of Lol Stein / Zahi Zalloua -- William Faulkner's Embodied Subjectivities / Benjamin Joshua Doty -- Paterson As A Satyrical Work: The Epistemology Of The Dance / N. S. Boone -- The Trumpets Of Autocracies And The Still, Small Voices Of Civilization: Levinas And Radio In A Time Of Crisis / Todd Avery -- Dialogic Ethics Through Levinas And Bakhtin: Dialogism And Infinite Obligation To The Other In Three Twentieth-century Dramas / Richard Middleton-kaplan -- Levinasian Subjectivity And Diminution Of Character In Cien Años De Soledad And Gravity's Rainbow / Donald R. Wehrs -- The Augenblick Of Reading In The Writing Of J. M. Coetzee And Michael Ondaatje / Mike Marais -- The Art Of Time: Levinasian Alterity And The Contemporary Spanish Novel / Nina L. Molinaro -- Answering The Summons Of The Other: Reading The Literature Of Migrant And Postcolonial Italy With Emmanuel Levinas / Norma Bouchard -- The Prophetic Thought Of Emmanuel Levinas: Reading Two Contemporary Novels Of The Shoah / Merle Williams -- Against The Akedah: Levinasian Paternity In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road / Daniel T. Kline. Donald R. Wehrs. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.