This thesis examines different types of ethical singularity which can be read in the novel the Waves by Virginia Woolf. Its focus is on the interpretations by Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze of...Show moreThis thesis examines different types of ethical singularity which can be read in the novel the Waves by Virginia Woolf. Its focus is on the interpretations by Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze of this novel. Both Blanchot and Deleuze read their version of ethical singularity in the Waves, in this thesis I will present their views and confront them to my own reading of ethical singularity in the novel. Blanchot understands ethical singularity from a transcendent perspective and Deleuze within a framework of immanence. It is peculiar to see that their different readings can be defended with evidence from the same novel, and their different strategies make for an interesting comparison. I will discover if the novel complies with either of these readings, or if it takes up a position of its own. I will argue that both Blanchot’s transcendentaltist approach and Deleuze’s immanentist approach provide justified insights into the Waves but that the novel exemplifies a different account of ethical singularity which combines and exceeds both.Show less
