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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... communication , to be sure , but as a condition for all communication , as exposure " ( OTB , 48 ) . But in Winesburg language reflects the fate of its speakers , and thus exists in a state of exile , making merely external people's ...
... communication will be set up between the two zones . The destruction of the colonial world is no more and no less than the abolition of one zone , its burial in the depths of the earth or its expulsion from the country " ( The Wretched ...
... communication within the story , as in Lord Jim ) and " figural embeddings " ( tropes of communication like the hands in Winesburg , Ohio or of aesthesis , as in James's " The Real Thing " and The Portrait of a Lady ) . Obviously , I ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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