Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

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Andrew Gibson. Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas. London: Routledge, 1999. x + 230 PP. $80.00 cloth; $26.95 paper.

The much-acclaimed "ethical turn" that some literary critics and theorists took in the nineties would appear to be a turn against deconstruction. Not so in the case of Andrew Gibson who makes the case for a criticism informed by a deconstructive ethics, following the example of J. Hillis Miller's The Ethics of Reading rather than that of Wayne Booth's The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. In Gibson's view, Booth is wedded ...

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