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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... aesthetic theory focuses on the redemptive and humanizing aspects of such power ; Crocean aesthetics and Maurice Merleau - Ponty's essays on Cézanne are two examples . But images can also hold sway far less benignly - they project ( or ...
... aesthetic " responsibility . Aesthetic boundaries extend beyond the limit of technical problems to encompass choices about the delicate and potentially harmful relation- ship of " author " to " hero . " The Sense of the Creatures ...
... Aesthetic Activity " Bakhtin contrasts two forms of memory : memory of one's own life , a retrieval of its content , and memory of another's life , " the golden key to the aesthetic consumma- tion of a person " : " Memory is an approach ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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