Narrative EthicsHarvard University Press, 1995 - 335 strani The ethics of literature, formalists have insisted, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, the ethical question has been freshly negotiated by literary studies, and to this approach Adam Newton brings a startling new thrust. His book makes a compelling case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, Newton explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in the process. He treats these relations as defining properties of prose fiction, of particular import in nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. |
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... Bigger turns away " from the long train of disastrous conse- quences " ( 701 ) that is the marplot narrated by the text . I do not argue here for a case of conscious borrowing , let alone a knowing resolution of Melvillean tautology ...
... Bigger's internal blockage seems preconscious ; the narrator must convey his thoughts to us . If Bigger always " goes for the head , " as Roger Rosenblatt puts it , he does so because he is venting the unconscious ressentiment bred of a ...
... Bigger's narrative almost never belongs to him alone , since it is continually “ thematized ” and assimilated to some- body else's narrative control . Beyond the equally short respite of free indirect style allowed him in an otherwise ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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