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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... George , whom he drives away . The story is , to paraphrase Stanley Fish , a self - contaminating artifact . George ( Wedding Guest now turned Mariner ) forces the storyteller , coaxing and browbeating him for the " story , " and ...
... [ George ] came and put a hand on her shoulder she turned and let her body fall heavily against him . For George Willard the confusion was immediately increased . For a mo- ment he held the body of the woman tightly against his body and ...
... George Willard , who as a reporter represents public opinion , that is , impersonal looking and listening . " And had not public opinion , " the text affirms , " sentenced the Cowleys to queer- ness ? " In point of fact , the Cowleys ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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