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Fictions of Infinity - Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels (Hardcover)
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Fictions of Infinity - Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels (Hardcover)
Series: Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
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This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics
in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can
be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a book
and finds an answer that combines conceptual metaphor theory with
concepts from classical narratology and beyond, such as mise en
abyme, textual circularity, intertextuality or omniscient
narration. It argues that texts with such structures may be
conceptualised as infinite via Lakoff and Nunez's Basic Metaphor of
Infinity. The catachrestic transfer of infinity from structure to
text means that the texts themselves are understood to be infinite.
Taking its cue from the central role of the infinite in Emmanuel
Levinas's ethics, the function of such 'fictions of infinity' turns
out to be ethical: infinite textuality disrupts reading patterns
and calls into question the reader's spontaneity to interpret. This
hypothesis is put to the test in detailed readings of four
21st-century novels, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Jeanette
Winterson's The Stone Gods, Ian McEwan's Saturday and John
Banville's The Infinities. This book thus combines ethical
criticism with structural aesthetics to uncover ethical potential
in fiction.
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