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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... Lord Jim and Winesburg , Ohio both examine . How to convert perception into language through consummating acts of " live - enter- ing " ( Bakhtin's ... Lord Jim installs a critique of Conrad's Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg , Ohio 79.
Adam Zachary Newton. Lord Jim Living Aesthetically Lord Jim installs a critique of perception even before its story actually commences . Conrad's prefatory “ author's note , " a corrective to some common misconceptions about the novel ...
... Jim ) , we may detect an almost punitive quality . Being paraded means being caught and exhibited , like Stein's specimens or Jim at the mercy of the inquest's legal machinery . But spectacle ... Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg , Ohio 89.
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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