Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Textual Ethos Studies-or Locating Ethics -- The Novel, the Social and the Event: An International Ethical Encounter -- Execrable Speech: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Bagatelles pour un Massacre -- The Grotesque on Fleshing Out the Subject of Ethics -- Playing Ball With God: Breaking the Law in Breaking the Waves -- Post-textual Ethics: Foucault's Rhetorical Will -- Shakespeare's Othello: Jealousy and Hermeneutics -- The Ethics of Modality in Pauline Smith's "The Sisters" -- Telling Stories: Alterity and Ethics in John Banville's The Untouchable and Shroud -- "All this tractate is but a dream": The Ethics of Dream Narration in Thomas Nashe's The Terrors of the Night -- Reading Kristeva and Beyond: Psychoanalysis As Textual Ethics -- Bodily Formations and Reading Strategies in John Donne's Metempsychosis -- Checkpoint Syndrome: Violence, Madness, and Ethics in the Hebrew Literature of the Intifada -- The Uses and Abuses of Children: Fairy Tales and the Pornographic -- Representations of Rape in Apartheid and Post-apartheid South African Literature -- Nightwood and the Limits of Representation -- David Mamet's Altered Ethics: Finding Forgiveness or Something Like It, in House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and State and Main -- "Your otherness is perfect as my death": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Li-Young Lee's Poetry -- The Look of Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas, Léo Bronstein, and the Interhuman Intrigue -- A Mind Poised Between Desires: The Ethos of T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism -- Sentimentality in Postmodernist Fiction: From Ethical Problem to Ethical Possibility -- Notes on the contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z.