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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... contrast to Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim ( which I discuss in detail in Chapter 3 ) . For one thing , the story " Loneliness " is its own lesson ; it reads itself , in advance of any " moral paraphrase . " When readers turn to Lord Jim , by ...
... contrast , Stanley Cavell's trenchant analysis of the country yokel's confusion of reference with phenomenalism when he leaps on stage to prevent Othello's murder of Desdemona . Like some neo - Aesopian fool , he does seem to believe it ...
... contrast , suspends it . Anderson's novel proposes as its central fact the fragment : a set of mostly unrelated stories told by or about " grotesques " whose life ur- gency gets " caught " within extraordinary and fragmentary moments of ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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