The importance of the ethics of form in literature has only recently gained broad recognition and has thus far been explored mainly from the position of moral philosophy and critical theory. Leona Tok
Toker (English, Hebrew University, Jerusalem) follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject's own favored devices. Beginning with a discussion of Pnin, she treats a number of recurrent fea
This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] should start a debate about modern literature with a rich potential for further development." —Michael ScammellRetur
"In each chapter Toker carefully reconstructs a novel for us—those are not mere plot summaries, but mature products of several re-readings—and proceeds to make her way through the novel's numerous pat
