Rethinking Postmodern Subjectivity

The Author: Zuzanna Ladyga is an assistant professor in the American Literature Section at the University of Warsaw (Poland), where she teaches postmodern literature, literary theory, and narratology. Her research interests include the interrelation between continental philosophy and theories of literary subjectivity, and postmodern experimental poetics. She is currently working on the referential strategies in the fiction of David Foster Wallace.

• Contents: Levinas’s Ethics as an Interpretative Method: Levinas vs. Lacan, Deleuze, and Winnicott – Levinasian «il y a» and the logic of postmodern collage in Donald Barthelme’s Snow White (1967) – The ethics of «fatigue» and «indolence» and the postmodern poetics of exhaustion – Levinas’s concept of ipseity and murder and Donald Barthelme’s The Dead Father (1975) – Postmodern mimesis and ethical expression in Barthelme’s Paradise (1985) – Ethics and politics in Barthelme’s The King (1990).