TY - JOUR ID - 14394 TI - Ethical Conversation with the Other in Conrad Aiken’s “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”: A Levinasian Reading JO - Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances JA - JALDA LA - en SN - 2820-8986 AU - Touzideh, Mohammadreza AU - Nowrouzi Roshnavand, Farshid AD - MA in English Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9025-7974 AD - Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, English Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-7785 Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 155 EP - 167 KW - Emmanuel Levinas KW - ethics KW - ethical language KW - subject KW - the Other KW - Conrad Aiken DO - 10.22049/jalda.2022.27397.1347 N2 - The ethical relation with the Other becomes of great significance in the postmodern ethos which considers the decentralization of subjectivity as one of its main philosophical and literary objectives. Emmanuel Levinas was one of the first philosophers who redefined the notion of ethics as a critical moment in which the subject’s encounter with the Other solely occurs through the use of ethical language, a mode of communication that essentially escapes any form of totalization in favor of the subject’s consciousness. Such an ethical meeting with the Other can be traced in Conrad Aiken’s short story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” which narrates the twelve-year-old protagonist’s encounter with the mysterious voice of snow. The results of the study show that the protagonist, once exposed to the speaking face of the Other, initiates an ethical conversation with it and, in so doing, loses his subjectivity to the ethical manifestation that the Other issues upon him. UR - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_14394.html L1 - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_14394_c8ec09dccacf41d790562a57ece4f24c.pdf ER -