Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel

Andrew Gibson is Dircetor of the MA in Postmodernism, Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'There is a level of mastery in these discussions, and indeed a range of it, that is consistently stimulating, both in the handling of novelists and theorists.' - David Rudrum, European Journal of English Studies'This is a provocative and highly ambitious project.' - Simon Malpas and Kate McGowan, Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory

• Introduction PART I Dissolutions 1 Narrative and alterity 2 Ethics and unrepresentability 3 Ethics and ‘the dissolution of the novel’ PART II Events 4 Proustian ethics 5 Ethics of the event: Beckett PART III Responses 6 Sensibility 7 Reception and receptivity