The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL WITH THIS COMPLETE, PRACTICAL COURSE.

Designed to take you from the moment you first put pen to paper right through to the process of contacting publishers (or uploading an ebook file) and promoting your book, this is the most important book on writing that you'll ever read. It introduces you to the craft of fiction writing, the art of words and the way in which to use them. It gives you inspiration, ideas and practical advice.

It gives you the background and the skills you'll need to succeed.

Unlike other books on the market, however, it also...

The Chinese "I Ching," or "Book of Changes," is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In "Sixty-Four Chance Pieces," novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the "I Ching" to work, using it to weave together 64 stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the "I Ching" s 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable, and travel writing, the collection offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the "I Ching," with tales of inventors and...