Rebuilding fictions: Violence and the aesthetic in Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth

<p>Critical accounts of postmodern fiction, with its inconclusive plots and fractured psyches, typically hinge on tropes of entropy, decentering, and the evacuation of meaning. Recent philosophical debates about ethics and religion, especially in their uptake by the literary academy as postsec...