Introduction Modernist Liabilities -- 1 Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy -- 2 Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings -- 3 Toni Morrison's Ethics Of Attention -- 4 John Banville's Performance Of Passion -- 5 J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart -- 6 Eimear Mcbride's Bodily Forms -- Conclusion Doug Battersby. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.