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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... Monarchs ' surplus of character , what Lacan named the objet petit à , their signal inability to be anything but what they reliably are . ( Indeed , Lacan defines " the real thing " as just this : the remainder of the Real within ...
... Monarchs appear ( with an irony which escapes them ) , as looking like " a photograph or a copy of a photograph " which contains " a big hole " in the form of Major and Mrs. Monarch themselves . " Material culture incorporates into ...
... Monarchs , unwittingly , model for menials . In a bitterly ironic final touch , resigned to their unrepresentability , the Monarchs become , not merely play the part of , servants . " If my ser- vants were my models , my models might be ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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