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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... Henry's personhood through a relentless racial optics . As Patricia Wil- liams observes , " The words of race are like windows into the most private vulnerable parts of the self ; the world looks in and the world will know . " 20 Indeed ...
... Henry causes a similar reaction : " The bandages on the negro's head allowed only one thing to appear — an eye which unwinkingly stared at the judge . The latter spoke to Trescott on the condition of the patient . Afterward he evidently ...
... Henry Johnson himself represents Levinasian face in its purest , yet paradoxically most horrific form : speech in the absence of visual recognizability . But as Mitchell notes , Henry is even more monstrous because he still has a voice ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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