...Rachel Hollander Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m Novel Ethics: Alterity and Form in Jacob’s Room Rachel Hollander 1 hough few critics would still claim that the modernist novel privileges experimental form over engagement with social and political concerns...

... the figure of the hyena upon which the accident is blamed, it proposes that the novel advances an indeterminate ethics of alterity that prefigures the insights of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Tracing the cultural histories of the hyena in West and South Asia, as well as in England, it argues...

...Gabriel Hankins The conjunction of posthumanism and ethics asks us to reconsider both the modernist legacy of critique and poststructuralist ethical rhetorics of absolute alterity. Bruno Latour’s recent reconsideration of politics and ethics through a “nonmodern” account of nature and culture...

..., the bombardment of a storm and the incantatory “exercise” of poetry are implicitly contrasted with a military exercise, moving us to consider the ethical dimensions of our availability to all types of discourse. During the postwar era of decolonization, Bishop uses Western imperialism’s figures of alterity...

...Kim Adams In 1931, African American journalist George Schuyler imagined a medical treatment that could turn Black people white and American politics upside down. Schuyler’s novel, Black No More , uses this fictional race-altering technology to mount a satirical critique of progressive era...

..., and Animal Life , edited by Steeves H. Peter , 15 – 36 . Albany : SUNY Press . Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 alterity animal anthropocentrism autobiography modernism Anthropocentricism, in some sense, is logically unavoidable,” the philosopher David Wood writes: “Any...

... account of literature’s ethical relationship to alterity. In addition to providing an excellent overview of new ethical interest in the novel, Hale’s insights will be particularly useful for scholars interested in characterological approaches to the novel, in the relationship of contemporary literature...

...). Such a revised understanding of otherness and alterity presents “social-ethical challenges to re-articulate [the dys-/disarticulate], to articulate and practice new forms of care” (230). In the epilogue, “‘Language in Dissolution’ and ‘A World without Words,’” Berger identifies David Goode’s A World without...

... without sovereignty over thought or being, a subject in the vicinity of an infinite alterity and exteriority. The “Here I am” is an iden- Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2 Summer 2008 166 Elegy under the Knife: Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice tity that is not simply itself because...

... in (post) colonial struggles for emancipation (of course, I mean a shift in emphasis, not an abandonment of one set of questions for the other). My understanding of ethics here is essentially Levinasian: the primacy of respect for alterity, the acknowledgment of the other’s...

... in the eye. Altered by the language and customs she has learned to imitate, Eliza sees a monkey in the mirror. Simultaneously she realizes that she is Higgins’s monkey, aping the middle class. An 1889 advertisement for Monkey Brand soap. Source: The British Library Online Gallery. Advert...

... John Milton, Samuel Coleridge, John Keats, and Shakespeare, see Murfin 1983 , 104–21. The essays in this special issue explore the various ways in which the ethics of modernism involves a serious consideration of nonhuman alterity, demonstrating historical and conceptual links between...

... foundations” (§167) and the “rock bottom” of convictions 38 Bedrock, Erosion, and Form:Jorie Graham and Wittgenstein (§248)—and such things as a lack of sharp boundary lines (§52, §318, §454), gradual alterations (§63, §473), things merging into one another (§309), the need for footholds (§356...

...James Berger Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction Twentieth-Century Apocalypse: Forecasts and Aftermaths Ja m e s B e r g e r...

... the violent expulsions of indigenous people that often preceded the establishment of “wilderness” reserves. Since Mars does truly confront humans with an environment that they have never yet have had a chance to alter in any way, it seems to offer ecocentrism a firmer foothold than Terran landscapes...

... in the gut but that alters conceptual habits,” as a framework for understanding the way in which the uncommon and “nonurban” books of Wojnarowicz and Grover revise the anxieties of America’s initial response to HIV/AIDS. As Houser traces discord, she locates a social dimension of the affect in the discordant...

...,” has in recent years come to seem anything but. David Chinitz’s Which Sin to Bear? is as much a meditation on this altered critical terrain as it is a consideration of two of the most persistent issues in Hughes’s reception—the racial authenticity of his vernacular writing, and the ethics...

... discourse, philosophy continues in and as a responding discourse.” (213) Thinking and action do not end with the disaster, but they take on a different structure—not a mere stopping but a “continuing as response. ” O f course, in any particular subjective now, the event that is alterity...

... Provincetown and Key West record her fascination with the alteration of the surfaces of the world under differing conditions of light, weather, and time of day, but in the notebooks the sea, even more than olive groves, fields, or buildings, appears as a particularly finely tuned instrument...

... to be disruptive rather than emphatic, and dynamic rather than static in terms of their effect on the narrative. In many cases his tableaus alter and drive forth the course of the plot dramatically, as will be discussed in the cases of his novels Where Angels Fear to Tread...