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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... critical approach , they can be legitimately described as two kinds of ethical critics , principally invested , like Frye , in the distinctive quality of ethical / critical judgment , of its rightness as textual commentary . Accordingly ...
... critical sense of mimesis . ) 45 To make my position clear : one of the " functions of criticism , " as I see it , is to follow the lead of literary texts by mediating their media- tions . Thus I do not at all demur from criticism's ...
... critical assumptions , but rather the right even to hold them - the conatus essendi , as he would say , the “ I can " of discursive autonomy . In this way , Levinas ' ethical project seeks even from itself a critical accounting , its ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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