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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... Real Thing , " the stamp of authenticity that makes persons representable - the real thing is a matter of thing not person . Like the unnamed article produced at Woolett in The Ambassadors or a Poynton spoil , " thing " resides in " the ...
... Real Thing " it is rather the unfree circulation of values - itself morally suspect - which defines " character " and " exemplarity , " commodifying representability at the expense of personal and social worth . Distinction , or " the real ...
... real thing , but always the same thing " ( 119 ) , live their value unsuccessfully , condemned , even in the midst of real need , to being real , thus unrepresentable . With the introduction of Miss Churm and Oronte , the sequence of ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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