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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... James critiques his own devotion to typification and " the stability of immaterial forms . ” 17 But even if it may seem to read against the grain of James's own self - aware aesthetic ( or rather precisely because it might ) , I would ...
... James's frequent analogies between pictorial representation and the novel only compound the blurring of authorial and narratorial levels so evident in " The Real Thing . " Bakhtin suggests the stakes in keeping such levels distinct ...
... James's own stance , which he records in his preface . For his acquistive view of ransacking the past does not differ much from the narrator's own . In the context of this story , James's figure for the artist — a dog burying and ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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