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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... houses of fiction . In the final such house in this chapter , the novella In the Cage , the many breaks in surface , the temptation of easy alignments , the differ- ence between reading footprints or signs , on the one hand , and ...
... House displays a counter - text to the sort of unmonitored prodigality of story we see , for example , in Winesburg , Ohio . At any rate , the double narrative in Bleak House stands out sufficiently in Dickens ' work that any reading of ...
... House by foregrounding , as it were , this biblical notion of narrative background , of a penumbra around character and discourse which preserves the value of intersub- jective claims over hermeneutic desires . And thus it is fitting ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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