"You're Screwing Yourself": Jim Thompson's Unlikely Levinasian Prophecy
This essay employs the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas in an analysis of Jim Thompson's critically neglected 1953 crime novel, Savage Night. Savage Night is one of four first-person crime novels that Thompson produced in the early 1950s that conclude with the death of the narrator as told in the voi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Notre Dame
2021
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Religion & literature
Year: 2021, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-135 |
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Thompson, Jim 1906-1977, Savage Night
/ Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
/ Mortality
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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