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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 Biographical Overview
1.2 Critical Assessment of The light of Day at Home and Abroad
1.2.1 Overseas Criticism
1.2.2 Critical Evaluation of The Light of Day in China
1.3 Graham Swift's Ethical Concern in The Light of Day:Research Plan and Framework
PART TWO THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL BASIS
2.1 Literature and Ethics
2.2 Ethical Literary Criticism
2.3 An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas' Ethical Theory of the Other
2.3.1 The Ethics of the Other:A Surmount of Western Ontology
2.3.2 Responsibility to the Otherness of the Other
2.4 The Light of Day as a Response to an Era of Egoism and Moral Atrophy
PART THREE PLIGHT ORIGINATING FROM THE EGOISTIC SELF
3.1 The Claustrophobic Self Devoid of Interaction with the Other:Underlying Reason for George Webb's Cognitive Deficit
3.2 The Possessive Self Resulting in the Triangle Relation among Sarah,Bob and Kristina
3.3 The Immune Self Feeding a Suburb of Selfishness and Exclusivity
PART FOUR STEPPING OUT OF PLIGHT THROUGH RECOGNIZING ALTERITY AND TAKING UP THE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OTHER
4.1 Recognizing the Alterity
4.1.1 Healing Effect of the Alterity of Words
4.1.2 Learn to Live Without:The Legend of the Empress
4.2 Taking up the Responsibility for the Other
4.2.1 George Webb's Devoted Love to Sarah
4.2.2 Kristina's Determination to Devote to Her War Scarred Country
PART FIVE CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY