Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas [electronic resource] /
Fifield, P.author.
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface                              ; Foreword               ; Acknowledgments                      ; Introduction                   ; Part I             ; 1 Writing against Art                            ; 2 A Reluctant Poetics                            ; Part II              ; 3 "why after all not say without further ado what can later be unsaid" (Company)
4 "begin again all over more or less in the same place or in another" (How It Is)                                                                                        5 The Turn to Hyperbole                              ; Conclusion                 ; Notes            ; Bibliography                   ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
European literature.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.