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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... chapter ) , I ask forbearance while I seem to " interrupt " the exposition I began in Chapter 1. It is precisely through such apparent interruption that a theory of narrative ethics catches up with its own breaks , so to speak , and ...
... chapter ask a related but different set of questions . What limits exist for the authoring , that is , the imagi- native filling in , of persons ? How does a doorway or a moving vantage point frame figures for our portraiture ? How do ...
... Chapter 2 persuade otherwise , but the risk of " ideological confusion " may perhaps remain . Indeed , in going so far as to argue for an " autonomous ethical principle " which cuts across , or at least inscribes itself within ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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