Levinas and the other in narratives of facial disfigurement : singing through the mask /

"Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grabher, Gudrun (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Subjects:	Lévinas, Emmanuel. American prose literature > History and criticism. Disfigured persons in literature. Face (Philosophy) Other (Philosophy) American prose literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Emanuel Levinas
Face value
Facial disfigurement and its repairs
Elephant people
Narratives on facial disfigurement
Conclusion.