Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introductory Matters
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
Levinas and the Fugitive Other: Consciousness, Representation,
Affectivity, and Memory
“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
Levinas and the Aesthetics of American Modernism
William Faulkner’s Embodied Subjectivities Benjamin Joshua Doty
Paterson as a Satyrical Work: The Epistemology of the Dance N. S.
Boone .
Levinas and the Embodied Voice: Listening and Performance .
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
Trauma and the Loss and Return of Character
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
Levinas and Temporal Fracturing in New European and Postcolonial
Fiction
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
Levinas, Apocalypse, and the Non-Imperializing Self
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
About the Contributors
Index
Donald R.Wehrs is professor of English at Auburn University.
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