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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... becomes clear , Nussbaum proceeds to detail her own dual encounters with philosophy and literature - by telling a story . She relates the institutional obstacles she faced in at- tempting to combine her joint interest in what were ...
... becomes the story of preternaturally expressive hands that must be silenced into beating fists , of electric desires to inspirit dreams — to lay on hands - stifled , for all their religiosity , into a profane and frenetic darting for ...
... become conspicuously economic . The narrator's propensity for transgressing personal boundaries and infiltrating other conscious- nesses founders when an ostensibly social relation becomes nakedly monetary and commodified . He registers ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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