Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Modernist Liabilities
  • 1 Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy
  • 2 Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings
  • 3 Toni Morrison's Ethics of Attention
  • 4 John Banville's Performance of Passion
  • 5 J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart
  • 6 Eimear McBride's Bodily Forms
  • Conclusion