Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Donald R.Wehrs is professor of English at Auburn University.