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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... answer— “ Say quick ” —a point of information— “ What manner of man art thou ? " And yet , what the Wedding Guest elicits far , far exceeds what he could have predicted , or even wanted . Instead of an answer , he gets a narrative ...
... answer and cannot escape the profound influence of the answering word it anticipates " ( DI , 280 ) . Not interruption as if on a Riemann surface25 - broken up and hollowed from within - but rather interruption as exchange : " Now ...
... answer his own somewhat disingenu- ous questions about the mystery of his being cast into such a role — the sometime physician forced to " see spots " -he stores them up and transmits them narratively . Alternately plied , and flowing ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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