Concerned with the possibilty of a postmodern ethics of reading. Each chapter discusses a particular aspects of Levina's thought and also contained detailed analysis of particular texts. 'There is a level of mastery in these discussions, and indeed a range of it, that is consistently stimulating, both in the handling of novelists and theorists.' - David Rudrum, European Journal of English Studies'This is a provocative and highly ambitious project.' - Simon Malpas and Kate McGowan, Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory